Egyptian Minister of Petroleum, Tarek El Molla, and Jordan's Energy Minister, Hala Zawati, launched a natural gas development project in the main compressor station in Aqaba City to enable natural gas trade betwee ...
The Egyptian company was further awarded a contract to provide and install a natural gas liquefaction line in the Gulf of Aqaba.
The Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Resources began meeting with Jordanian officials to boost the capacity of the interconnector from 450 MegaWatt (MW) to 1,000 MW.
Jordan floated a tender to transport a maximum of 10,000 barrels of crude oil per day (b/d) from Iraqi Baiji oil refinery to Jordan’s Petroleum Refinery Company.
Since the Jordanian government announced the initiative of installing 2-kilowatt solar energy systems in March of 2018, the ministry received around 2,495 applications.
Egyptian natural gas exports to Jordan reached 350 mmscf/d compared to 100 mmscf/d in January 2019.
Iraq and Jordan have agreed on many mechanisms to strengthen the economic cooperation between the two countries, including the study of establishing an Iraqi oil pipeline to deliver oil to Jordan.
Iraq is going to sell 10,000 barrels per day (b/d) of oil from its Kirkuk oilfields to Jordan at a special price and Iraqi goods imported through Aqaba port will have preferential tariffs.
Iraq plans to reduce the price of oil traded to Jordan, in return for getting preferential tariffs on goods that Iraq receives from Jordan through Aqaba port.
Egypt has started exporting around 165 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscf/d) of natural gas to Jordan in order to cover gas supply in electricity generation.
