Fire reported after explosion on Jbessa gas export pipeline in northeastern Syria
SANA reported that Syria’s Jbessa gas export pipeline was targeted on Thursday, triggering a fire, while a separate fuel pipeline incident caused a gasoline leak.
Shaddadi, Syria. An attack on the Jbessa gas export pipeline in Syria’s northeast sparked a fire in the al-Arabidi area, SANA reported on Thursday, citing the director of the Syrian Petroleum Company’s media office.
Damaged section isolated
In a statement, the company put the explosion at 5.15 p.m. on the 16-inch pipeline, roughly 60 km from Shaddadi. The statement gave no cause for the blast.
The company said technical teams shut valves at two facilities—the Jbessa gas plant and the Deir Ezzor gas station in al-Bughailiya—to isolate the affected section. Firefighters and safety personnel were heading to the scene to make the area safe, it added.
The scale of the damage remained unclear, as did any effect on gas supplies.
Separate gasoline leak near Homs
Earlier on Thursday, damage to the Baniyas-Homs oil products pipeline near Hudeida village in the countryside west of Homs caused a gasoline leak, according to the company.
It attributed that incident to sabotage intended to steal fuel and said repairs were continuing to bring the pipeline back into operation.
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