Monday, May 20, 2013
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Jordan’s cabinet on Wednesday agreed on an Economic Development Committee recommendation that the government be a stakeholder in a new Aqaba port project and finance a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal project, Petra news reported. The government would inject JD 20 million ($28 million) into...
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.
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...
Jordan and Iraq have signed an agreement to build an $18 billion double pipeline project that will supply the kingdom with Iraqi crude oil and natural gas, Jordan Times reported citing Iraq’s oil ministry. “The Iraqi oil minister has signed the agreement in Baghdad and the deal was sent...
Jordan has invited firms to participate in the pre-qualification process for the supply of LNG as part of the Jordan LNG Project. The country expects to import LNG equivalent to 150 mmscf per day to meet the increased demand for fuel, Jordan’s ministry of energy and mineral resources said in a...
Jordan’s Arab Potash Company (APC) [i], one of the world’s largest potash producers, “is in contact with its Israeli counterpart through the American oil and gas firm Noble Energy to examine the possibility of importing gas,” Jordan’s Minister of Energy said in a statement, AFP...
Tamar Partners are in talks to sell natural gas to Jordanian companies, Reuters reported citing a news item in financial news site The Marker. The Tamar prospect, whose estimated reserves of 274 bcm made it one of the largest discoveries of the past decades, is expected to begin production in the next...
Natural gas supplies from Egypt to Jordan fell to 2.3 million cubic meters per day since Saturday, one-third of the 6.8 million cubic meters agreed upon in the gas deal between Amman and Cairo, Daily News Egypt reported. Egyptian officials abstained from giving the reasons behind the cut, while Jordanian...