Gas theft cited in Baniyas-Homs leak as gasoline export line in Hasakah catches fireplace.
Revealed On 15 Oct 2026
Two pipelines carrying gasoline and oil merchandise have been broken in separate incidents in Syria, state media reported, the newest disruptions to the nation’s vitality infrastructure following a collection of suspected sabotage attacks.
The state-owned Syrian Petroleum Firm introduced the injury on Thursday, based on the Syrian Arab Information Company (SANA). The incidents add to various assaults on Syria’s oil and gasoline community in current months, as the federal government tries to revive its vitality sector.
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An explosion struck the Jbessa gasoline pipeline in southern Hasakah province within the late afternoon, hours after injury to a pipeline transporting oil merchandise from the coastal metropolis of Baniyas to Homs brought about a gas leak.
The corporate stated the gasoline pipeline had been focused in a “sabotage assault”, based on SANA.
Neither SANA nor the corporate named a suspect or group liable for the assaults.
Repairs underneath manner
Oday al-Satouf, head of the corporate’s media workplace, informed SANA {that a} gap was discovered within the Baniyas-Homs pipeline within the Hadida space, west of Homs. Crews remoted the affected stretch and secured the encircling space, he stated, closing valves on both facet of the broken part. Repairs have begun, whereas different groups monitor the realm for security. State media stated the leak was believed to be linked to an tried gas theft.
Al-Satouf stated gasoline would proceed to achieve energy stations by means of different preparations, and that home gasoline provides have been unaffected, based on SANA.
A string of incidents
Greater than every week in the past, the corporate stated an oil pipeline close to Tal Hamis within the northeastern province of Hasakah was broken in a sabotage assault. It added that authorities had arrested these accountable.
In late September, a hearth broke out on a gasoline pipeline between al-Shoula and Deir Az Zor within the east, halting gasoline flows from the Jbessa plant to energy stations, SANA reported. Hisham al-Saleh, a gasoline sector official on the firm, stated gasoline strain within the space fell as crews labored to extinguish the blaze.
Syria has been working to revive its vitality infrastructure and enhance home oil manufacturing. That features resuming operations at oil fields in Hasakah to produce refineries in Homs and Baniyas. In January, the petroleum firm introduced plans to move crude from lately recovered fields to the 2 refineries as a part of efforts to revive the sector.
