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Jordan Cement takes first step to use oil shale in production
AMMAN -- Under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on Monday with the Natural Resources Authority (NRA), the Jordan Cement Factories Company (JCFC) will utilise oil shale from the Lajoon area in Karak.NRA Director General Maher Hijazeen signed the MoU in behalf of the authority while JCFC General Manager Rasheed Ben Yakhlouf represented the company.
To finalise an industrial experiment, the JCFC has expressed willingness to use 56,000 tonnes of the Lajoon oil shale to produce cement.
According to the MoU, the JCFC would work on qualifying the area for extracting oil shale there.
Hijazeen said that the company would provide 10 tonnes of the oil shale from the Lajoon mine as a sample for future researches and studies.
The exploration programme would include drilling of ten wells in two sections in order to reach all the oil shale levels and then take the samples from the wells to conduct the needed tests and analysis.
The company will submit a full report of its activities in the area to the NRA, as soon as the work there is completed, a source at the NRA remarked.
Yakhlouf said earlier this year that the JCFC has already launched some attempts to use oil shale instead of the fuel oil and this is one of the company's contributions to reduce the effect of the sharp increase in the fuel oil prices.
"If we succeeded in this attempt, we would be the first company to use such method in the country, and open the door for other industries to try it," he said.
He added: "The cost of the energy used in the cement industry in Jordan is the highest in the world, and we must search for alternatives."
Jordan has a reserve of oil shale estimated at 40 million tonnes, which would supply the country with its needs of energy for hundreds of years, the NRA source concluded.
© Jordan Times 2005
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