Dana Gas and Emirates General Petroleum Corporation (Emarat) have signed a Dh670 million ($183 million) contract to build a gas pipeline in the UAE.

Dana Gas and Emarat will have a fifty-fifty partnership in the construction, ownership and operation of the pipeline.
This will link the Hamriyah Free Zone and Sajaa gas hub in Sharjah emirate, a statement said.
The 30 km pipeline has a design capacity of 1 billion cubic feet per day and is expected to be operational at the end of this year.
Dana Gas has said it plans to sell Iranian gas to the Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority (SEWA), the UAE Federal Electricity and Water Authority (FEWA) and other industrial users.
The statement said that SEWA, FEWA and gas marketing firm Crescent National Gas Corp signed a 25-year contract to share the pipeline's capacity.
Rashid Al Shamsi, general manager of Emarat, said the project “is an excellent example of co-operation between a public sector company, a private sector company, and the government, for the benefit of the local economies in power generation and industrial development”.
 He said the  pipeline initiative will be an integral catalyst in fostering industrial growth.