The Electricité du Liban announced in a statement that additional precautionary measures were being taken to prolong the period of energy production as much as possible, while giving priority to maintaining 24-hour electricity supply to basic vital facilities in Lebanon (airport, port, water pumps, sewage, Lebanese University, prisons, And other basic facilities…).
The following statement stated:
“In addition to the statement of the Electricité du Liban Corporation dated 12/13/2023, and since no new data was revealed regarding the arrival of the first part of the shipment of gas oil supplied to the Electricité du Liban Corporation, according to the public tender conducted by the Ministry of Energy and Water – General Directorate of Petroleum via the website The Public Procurement Authority, as well as the procedures for opening the documentary credit to extend the Iraqi exchange agreement for the third year, and since the storage of gas oil in the Al-Zahrani and Deir Ammar plants has decreased significantly, to the extent that it has fallen below the limits of 6,000 cubic meters in the Deir Ammar plant, and below the limits 11,000 cubic meters in the Zahrani plant, and in the face of this situation that is completely beyond the control and responsibility of the Electricité du Liban, the Electricité du Liban announces that it has taken additional precautionary measures to prolong the energy production period as much as possible, while giving priority to maintaining 24-hour electricity supply to the basic vital facilities in Lebanon (airport, port, water pumps, sewage, Lebanese University, prisons, and other basic facilities…), avoiding total darkness, as:
1. Since the peak of the night on Sunday, December 3, 2023, one production batch in the Deir Ammar factory has been forcibly stopped as a first stage to prolong the available stock for as long as possible.
2. As a second stage, the only remaining gas production group in the Deir Ammar plant will be forcibly put out of service, starting at the peak of Tuesday night, 12/19/2023, and the only remaining gas production group in the Al-Zahrani plant will be maintained in order to reduce the rate of consumption of oil gas from storage. The total remaining in both factories, provided that, after the exhaustion of the Al-Zahrani factory’s storage expected on 12/28/2023, the production group in the Deir Ammar factory will be put into service again until the entire storage in the factory is exhausted expected on 01/03/2024, and thus stopping Full power production under these forced conditions, awaiting the supply and discharge of the charge referred to above,
These current precautionary measures would reduce the total thermal production capacity to only about 200 megawatts. Provided that the aforementioned production groups will be put back into service successively upon the arrival and unloading of the load of the first part of the shipment, which was supposed to arrive on a date between 06-10/12/2023, and then the supply will be restored to what it was.
An indication that had the Electricité du Liban not taken these precautionary measures, the country would have fallen into the ban and public facilities would have been paralyzed as a result in mid-December 2023, as a result of the current circumstances that are completely beyond the control and responsibility of the institution.”
2023-12-19 10:30:00
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