REPAIRS have been completed on a pipeline that supplies natural gas to four power plants in Yangon, said an official from the Ministry of Energy on September 25.

Problems with the pipeline, which was shut down September 23 for repairs, were blamed for blackouts in Yangon.

The 320-kilometre (199-mile) pipeline carries 3.1 million cubic metres (110 million cubic feet) of gas a day to Yangon’s Ywama gas control station from the Yandana gas project in Tanintharyi Division.

Myanmar depends on gas turbines for the production of electricity, although the government is implementing a number of new hydropower projects across the country.