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  • Refinery company looks to expand gas station network

    JORDAN, 2017/06/02 The Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company (JPRC) plans to expand its network of gas stations across the Kingdom, a senior executive told The Jordan Times Sunday. The expansion in gas stations is carried out through the Jordan Petroleum Products Marketing Company (Jo Petrol), a subsidiary of JPRC and its marketing arm.

  • LNG shipments from Qatar will help develop transport infrastructure

    JORDAN, 2015/12/27 The arrival of the initial liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipment from Qatar at Aqaba Port in May 2015 signalled a major step forward for Jordan’s energy sector, while as well putting the country’s plans for developing transport infrastructure firmly in the spotlight. The heightened activity at Aqaba has underscored the need to boost connectivity between the country’s only port and the north, and reduce the strain on its roads. DRIVING THE DISTANCE: Aqaba Port was responsible for around 55% of Jordan’s entire export trade in 2013, while handling some 73% of total imports during the year, according to the Department of Statistics. The area is as well home to the Aqaba Appropriate Economic Zone, an industrial site inclunding airport and maritime facilities, factories, workshops and businesses. However, given the instability in neighbouring Syria and Iraq, pressure is likely to increase at Aqaba, with overland trade largely paralysed by border attacks from insurgents. In April 2015, Jordan closed its only working border crossing with Syria at Jaber. This has forced Jordanian traders with commitments in Syria or Iraq to rely on sea routes via Haifa in Israel or through the Suez Canal to Aqaba.

  • Buying Israeli gas will save the Jordanian economy$1.5 billion a year.

    JORDAN, 2014/12/21 Commenting on Jordan's importing of natural gas from Israel, Jordanian Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Mohammed Hamed said, "The purchase of gas from Noble Energy does not constitute a political risk for Jordan, and will not make it dependent on the goodwill of a single country." He was speaking yesterday in the Jordanian parliament in Amman. Hamed asserted that signing an agreement to purchase gas from Noble Energy would be relatively advantageous for Jordan, because electricity is currently produced in Jordan using much additional expensive fuel. "We can't sit and do nothing at the same time as our power company is losing additional and additional money each year," he said.

  • Jordan has 80 billion tons stockpile of oil shale

    JORDAN, 2012/12/24 Jordan has approximately 40-80 billion tons of oil shale (about 34 billion barrels of shale oil) that could last for over 900 years at current consumption, said a top official at an Estonian company tapping the Kingdom's reserves of oil shale. Director of Jordan Project at Enfit, a world oil shale exploration and development company, Andres Anijalg, has recently said during a meeting with a number of Jordanian journalists, that his company will carry out two projects in Jordan; an electricity generation project and oil extraction project from oil shale.

  • Egypt fully resumes gas supplies to Jordan:

    JORDAN, 2012/12/21 Jordan said on Thursday Egypt has resumed full gas supply of 250 million cubic metres (8.8 billion cubic feet) a day to the energy-poor kingdom, after the flow was disrupted by repeated pipeline attacks. “In the past few days, we received between 190 and 210 million cubic metres of gas from Egypt. But today Egypt resumed full supplies of 250 million cubic metres,” Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur told a joint news conference with his Egyptian counterpart Hisham Qandil.
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