LONDON: Syrian authorities began restoring gas supplies on Thursday to the Deir Ali power plant after an explosion at a pipeline serving the Tishreen thermal plant near Damascus forced several generating stations offline and reduced electricity available on the national grid. Technical crews started gradually repressurizing the Arab Gas Pipeline between Adra and Deir Ali, the Energy Ministry said in a statement, a step intended to allow the Deir Ali plant to resume operations in stages. The pipe
