Gas Export Postponed [Archives:2000/16/Local News]

The government has recently announced postponement of gas exportation to 2004, canceling the previous date 2001. “The period was needed for the company to clinch its sale contracts for the Indian market,” a source from the Yemen Gas Company said.
Jean Paul Azalbert was quoted as telling a recent energy conference in Oman that the construction of gas pipelines, and a liquefaction plant would be announced at the end of this month to be awarded in 2001.
The construction would take more than 41 months before launching exportation.
Yemen Gas Company revealed in December 1998 that it aimed at signing an agreement with British Gas for Pipavav with 2.65 million tons of gas a year.
The Yemen Gas Company has gas reserves of 10.2 trillion cubic feet which is planned to be exported through at least 25 years as well as to be supplied for the domestic market of Sanaa through another pipeline.
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