Jordan: Iraq cancels pipeline for gas pipeline project

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The government agrees to transfer the majority of the project of oil to Jordan items

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{Baghdad: Euphrates News} The Oil Ministry announced on Thursday that the government has agreed to most of the terms of the agreement between Iraq and Jordan on a project to extend an oil pipeline from Basra to Jordan.

Said ministry spokesman Assem Jihad, in a press statement, " The government has approved the majority of the contract with the terms of companies , " he said, adding that " the project will meet the need of Jordan, will be exported section of the oil as well." 
He noted "the existence of a preliminary agreement on the supply of oil Egypt," noting that "it will be a conduit for the countries of North Africa," pointing out that "Iraq does not spend any money on the project, but the consortium to pay its costs." 
It is said that, the project is the establishment of a consortium of several companies to extend an oil pipeline from Basra province , south of the country to the Jordanian port of Aqaba. 
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Oil Zia Jaafar, announced in the second of last April, the Council of Ministers agreed in principle to set up a project pipeline Jordanian Alaraca-, noting that " the meetings will be held between the two countries next week on the project estimated to cost about 6.5 billion dollars , " he said, adding " the Iraqi government has stepped up its efforts with the company invested in the oil pipeline project, it was reached with agreement on technical issues and economic issues, in addition to determine the price and tariff costs total project" .anthy

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Resumption of oil pipeline talks Basra - Aqaba in Amman during the days

06/07/2017 0:16     Oman / Hazem Mubaidin  waiting for Oman and the arrival of a delegation from the Iraqi Oil Ministry during the days, to start the final technical negotiations on the oil pipeline between the two countries project, including environmental files, where he is expected that these negotiations will continue for two months to start after the actual implementation of the project on the ground. Note that Iraq ended all technical matters related to the oil line between Iraq and Jordan. Work is expected to begin the implementation of the reality inside Jordanian territory with the end of this year.  The estimated cost of implementing the project within Jordanian territory by about 6 to $ 8 billion and implemented by the company "MAS"   International.  The Iraqi government will bear the cost of the establishment of the line from Basra to Najaf, while the line will be completed from Najaf to the Jordanian border , where it will be built according to building and operating system B or T.  The project includes the inside Jordanian territory, extending a sub - tube length of 60 kilometers up to the oil refinery in the Jordanian city of Zarqa near Amman, to continue its extension then to export port in   Aqaba.  Where it will carry more than two million barrels of oil a day, as the project will include a pipeline of natural gas supplied Jordan by about 100 million cubic feet per day, while the rest go quantities pumped through which to operate the pumping stations in the port of   export.  Jordan and Iraq signed in 2013 a framework agreement to build a pipeline to transport Iraqi crude oil from Basra to export terminals in the port of Aqaba at a total cost of the project up to about $ 18 billion.  The Jordanian Minister of Energy explained that the Iraqi side ended the process ofselecting the coalition that will provide advisory and investment services   for the project.  While the new Chinese coalition of Iraqi interest in the implementation of the project, having changed the course of the Iraqi oil pipeline to pass along Saudi Arabia Jordan 's eastern border instead of the Jordanian - Iraqi border , as the Iraqi government approved the end of the year 2015 on the new route for the part tube inside Iraq and renewed this endorsement move The project by providing a safer path , whether to implement the Iraqi part or part of the investment to   Aqaba.  On the other hand Iraq is interested in renewable energy and benefit from the Jordanian experience in this field, while Jordan is interested in Iraqi expertise in the field of prospecting and exploration, where a Jordanian delegation visited several working Iraqi companies in this field, as a prelude to the signing of memorandums of understanding with them was able to send experts to the Kingdom to benefit from their experience in the field of exploration and mineral resources exploration and assessment of the information available in this   sector.

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Jordan: Iraq cancels pipeline for gas pipeline project

Economy News _ Baghdad The head of the Oil Directorate in the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Ashraf al-Rawashdeh, said on Sunday that the Iraqi side decided to cancel the gas line, which was supposed to be accompanied by the Basra-Aqaba oil pipeline. Al-Ghad newspaper quoted him as saying that the aim of the gas pipeline was to operate the pumping stations along the main pipeline, Jordan in any quantities are surplus from the need for pumping stations in the event that Jordan needs any quantities of this gas. Al-Rawashdeh said that the project developer will look for an alternative to the operation of pumping stations instead of gas and commensurate with the economic feasibility of the project, noting that the ministry was informed of this decision in June. Al-Rawashdeh said that the project development and management contract has been extended to 25 years instead of the previously planned 20 years before it was handed over to the Jordanian government, adding that this was also part of the process of improving the economics of the project to motivate the developer to speed it up. An official Iraqi source told the newspaper that work was planned to be carried out within the Jordanian territory by the end of this year. In April 2013, the two sides signed a framework agreement to build a pipeline to transport Iraqi crude oil from Basra to export ports at the port of Aqaba at a total cost of about $ 18 billion.

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