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Jordan would prefer the country to Iraqi gas supplies to compensate for the Egyptian
On: Wednesday 02/22/2012 10:31
□ Baghdad / term follow-up to
announced Jordan preference for Iraqi gas to the country than that to compensate for the supply of Egyptian natural gas stalled. The newspaper "Tomorrow" Jordanian Prime Minister of Jordan Awn Al-Khasawneh said, "We started to move with Qatar, but I do not find a room available at this level only from Iraq," in reference to search for alternatives to supply Egyptian gas stalled due to their exposure to Asthdavat continuing.
Khasawneh and confirmed that he will visit Iraq "very soon" to discuss the matter, pointing at the same time that "contacts with the country are continuing, as we try to research on the subject of gas with the Saudi brothers." Imports Jordan currently has about 10 thousand barrels of Iraqi crude oil a day, mostly from Saudi Arabia, and constitute this amount 10% of its oil needs, while seeking to increase to $ 30 thousand barrels in order to compensate for the shortfall due to the interruption of Egyptian gas.
and stopped supply of Egyptian gas to the Kingdom on the fifth of February, the current after exposure of the pipeline which supplies Jordan with about 150 million cubic feet per day of natural gas to blow up, being a line in common with Israel, and this is bombing the twelfth since the revolution that led to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak from power.
Prime Minister Jordan announced earlier that the repeated interruption of supply of Egyptian gas will cost the Treasury about two billion dollars annually, while the country depends now on the diesel and fuel oil to ensure the needs of power stations.
The agreement sale of Egyptian natural gas to Israel, which was concluded under President Hosni Mubarak, opposition highly in public opinion and the political class in Egypt because of the Jewish state for the Egyptian gas at a lower price than the market price, and Israel imports 43 percent of its needs for natural gas from Egypt and produces 40 percent of electricity from imported Egyptian gas.
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