Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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On Jordan’s energy history Energy is a major challenge to our budget. We import 97% of our total energy needs. The remaining 3% is made of natural gas produced locally at the Risha field in the eastern desert near the border with Iraq. Various energy shocks led to our National Energy Strategy: Increasing...
The disruption of the gas flow from Egypt to Jordan forced the Kingdom to import expensive fuel products for electricity generation. What are the measures taken by the Kingdom to reduce its expensive energy bill? It is not easy to shift from one energy generation mode to another.
Natural Gas Europe was pleased to have an opportunity to interview Michael J.Economides, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston and Energy Tribune Editor-In-chief, at the Lebanon Oil & Gas 2013 Summit organized by IRN in...
Natural Gas Europe was invited on Wednesday 24th April to the Parliament of Lebanon where Congressman Mohammad Kabbani, chairman of the parliamentary committee on energy, gave a press statement. Congressman Kabbani expressed his satisfaction with the enthusiasm that international companies have...
Natural Gas Europe was pleased to have an opportunity to interview Dr. Theodore Tsakiris, Assistant Professor, Geopolitics of Hydrocarbons, University of Nicosia, Cyprus, at the 2nd Annual Cypriot-Greek Oil & Gas 2013 Summit organized by IRN in the southern coastal town of Limassol.
Amman and Baghdad have signed an agreement to construct a 1,680 km pipeline that will run from Iraq’s southern oil-producing region, Basra, to Anbar province and then to Jordan’s port city of Aqaba. The USD 18 billion costing pipeline will supply Jordan with 850,000 barrels of oil as...
Amman and Baghdad have signed an agreement to construct a 1,680 km pipeline that will run from Iraq’s southern oil-producing region, Basra, to Anbar province and then to Jordan’s port city of Aqaba. The USD 18 billion costing pipeline will supply Jordan with 850,000 barrels of oil as...
In preview of Shell's LNG conference taking place in Houston this week - LNG 17 - Andy Brown, Upstream International Director, provided journalists a window into how Shell envisions the robust LNG market going forward, as well as the global outlook for gas. From his remarks...
Jordan imports most of its gas from Egypt through the Arab Gas Pipeline (approx.. 3 billion cubic meters – close to 80 percent of its domestic gas consumption from a total of 95 percent – at a cost of nearly a quarter of its GDP). The Arab Spring that forced President...
Turkey is energy poor. The country imports the vast majority of its oil, gas and hard coal supplies to meet domestic demand. Turkey imports 58 percent of its gas from Russia, 19 percent from Iran, 9 percent from Algeria, 9 percent from Azerbaijan and 3 percent from Nigeria. Turkey...