The Iran Iraq Syria gas pipeline and the Syrian conflict

This pipeline will run from Iran's South Pars gas field which is the largest in the world and exit on the coast of Syria or Lebanon.
The deal for this was signed on 25th July 2013 between Iran, Iraq and Syria.

This deal is absolutely against the interests of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and Israel.

Saudi Arabia and Qatar because they are hoping to build their own gas pipeline through Syria and Turkey to Europe.
Turkey because of the above plus the existing Ceyhan pipeline from the Caucasus (the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan pipeline built by BP).
Israel because of the large gas field found off shore in 2010, which they are naturally hoping to market to Europe.  

This deal between Iran, Iraq and Syria explains much of the Syrian conflict and the signing explains much of the recent escalation and urgency by the parties that do not want it to go ahead.
The American military machine is being co-opted to ensure that the deal does not go ahead.
Either with Assad being toppled and replaced with an Islamic Extremist government that Saudi Arabia thinks it can control
or
Syria is divided into a number of small less powerful states with on-going sectarian and religious wars.

Read more here :-
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/30/syria-chemical-attack-war-intervention-oil-gas-energy-pipelines
http://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Middle-East/Iran-Iraq-Syria-Pipeline-Must-Tempt-Europe.html