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

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 of selecting 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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