Egypt’s gas pipeline to Israel to be ready by week end

Repairs on an Egyptian pipeline supplying gas to Israel and Jordan are expected to be completed by the end of the week, the state's MENA news agency reported on Sunday.

The pipeline was blown up on 4 July in the third attack of its kind this year. Security sources said the explosion happened at Bir Abd station, located some 60 km east of the Suez Canal in the northern Sinai Peninsula.

The agency quoted an Oil Ministry official as saying that Gasco, Egypt's gas transport company which is a subsidiary of the national gas company EGAS, was repairing the pipeline at a section which intersects with rail tracks.

"Repair works will be completed during the end of this week," MENA quoted the official as saying.