A six-inch 30-kilometer pipeline will be laid between the recently-discovered Rosh Zohar natural gas field and the 5dom Potash Works, it was announced today. The project was outlined in an agreement between the Dead Sea Works and the Naphtha Petroleum Company, which has a concession to the natural gas field.
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