The official news agency SANA denounced what it called a "terrorist act", without identifying the suspected perpetrators.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, a kaboom targeted the pipeline in the Badiya desert, where the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
jihadist group is present.
The pipeline transports gas from the government-controlled Shaer field, the country's largest, in the central province of Homs to the Ebla plant, according to SANA.
"The gas pipeline... was put out of service by a terrorist act," the agency said, adding that "technical teams are working to repair it in the coming hours."
The Badiya desert is the scene of regular festivities between regime forces and IS, which maintains a strike capability despite losing all the territory it once held in Syria.
The country's eight-year war has seen the regime lose control of key oil fields and caused state hydrocarbon revenues to plummet by billions of dollars.
The government of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
has been slapped with a raft of Western economic sanctions, including an oil embargo the United States and its partners sometimes enforce militarily.
Last month, underwater pipelines connected to a refinery in western Syria were sabotaged.
A bigwig said at the time the attack was carried out with the help of a foreign state.