ANKARA, July 30 (KUNA) -- Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar announced, Wednesday, that natural gas from Azerbaijan would be exported to Aleppo via Kilis starting Saturday, August 2.
Speaking to state-owned Anadolu News Agency, Bayraktar said the pipeline, linking Kilis to Aleppo, was completed in May, adding that Turkiye will cooperate with Azerbaijan and Qatar in the operation.
The daily gas supply aimed to increase electricity availability in northern Syria from just 3-4 hours to around 10 hours a day, he said.
The plan is to use six million cubic meters of gas to generate up to 1,200 megawatts of power, Bayraktar noted.
He added that Turkiye is already exporting electricity to northern Syria and plans to boost current deliveries to 280 megawatts via existing transmission lines.
Efforts are also underway to reactivate the 500-megawatt Birecik-Aleppo line, which was used in the past. (end) oas.aai