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Jun 13 2011

Jordan to receive Egypt gas at full capacity by month end

By By Taylor Luck AMMAN - Jordan is expected to receive natural gas supplies from Egypt at full capacity by the end of the month, an official said.

Egypt resumed the supplies to the Kingdom on Friday as part of a new agreement between Cairo and Amman.

According to the National Electric Power Company ( NEPCO ), 70 million cubic feet of natural gas have reached the Kingdom over the last two days, alleviating pressure on power plants that have been running on diesel and fuel reserves since an April 27 attack on the Arab Gas Pipeline disrupted the supply.

"We have started to receive supplies and we expect the supply to gradually reach 250 million cubic feet by the end of the month," NEPCO Director General Ghaleb Maabreh told The Jordan Times over the phone on Sunday.

The resumption of Egyptian gas comes ahead of the signing of a deal struck between the two sides last week amending a 12-year favourable pricing agreement under which Jordan received gas at less than half the international market price.

Although the details of the amended agreement have yet to be finalised, the Kingdom is expected to pay close to international levels for the supply, which it relies upon for 80 per cent of its electricity generation needs.

April's attack on the Arab Gas Pipeline marked the second in less than three months and forced the Kingdom's power plants onto diesel and heavy oil reserves at an estimated cost of $3 million per day.

Also yesterday, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Khaled Toukan received "promising" preliminary results of a geological survey of Al Rishah gas fields.

According to the survey's results, British Petroleum will proceed with drilling the first exploration wells under the project, which aims to boost production from the gas fields from 330 million cubic feet to some one billion cubic feet per day.


© Jordan Times 2011


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