Pipeline to export oil through Jordan supports the two economies

Pipeline to export oil through Jordan supports the two economies



3/23/2017 0:00

Oman / Hazem ovaries
brings voice and talk about the tube of Iraqi oil exports via the Jordanian port of Aqaba, where he visited a Jordanian official Baghdad, or received Amman , Iraqi officials, and in the meantime , waiting for "obstacle" lifeline extends its economy to flourish, benefiting from its geographical location, after being extended the tube that extends over a length of 1000 km, and energy export about one million barrels per day, to be a substitute for the pipe line to the Turkish port of Ceyhan. Experts say it will bring benefit to the economy of the two countries and would be the best strategic alternatives, which will be exported gate Head of Iraqi oil, and provides returns instead of passing from Jordan by about $ 3 billion
annually.
And Aqaba will be one of the most cities benefit, which means a group of projects and industries associated with this project, such as the establishment of a refinery and a power plant, and a group of factories petrochemical, huge warehouses that will be held for the storage of oil, in preparation for export or refining.
Began to project the story of thirty years ago, when it was considered the idea with foreign companies, to extend the line from the Baiji refinery to the blue, card estimated up to one million barrels per day, has advanced to execute Occidental company, but stalled for political reasons, then it talk returned in 2003 to be extended tube of Basra into a modern, then branched off into two lines , one with a view to the blue oil refinery, and the second to the port of Aqaba for export, and the estimated cost of one billion in 1986 and a quarter of a billion, is currently rising to 18
billion.
Iraqi Ambassador in Amman Safiya al - Suhail , had assured that the country will start this year the implementation of the project, after the completion of their talks the two countries in this
regard.
He favored the Jordanian Minister of Energy to begin the implementation of the line from Basra to Aqaba at the middle of this year, and noted that the Iraqi government will be covered by extended tube at their own expense in full.
In Baghdad , it was announced the formation of a global coalition to build the pipeline, and that the Chinese company and other foreign companies, signed an agreement to form a coalition to invest in the project, after changing his memoirs line extends across the holy city of Najaf and along the border with Saudi Arabia leading to
Aqaba.
But Haider Aalghemaz spokesman of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources , Jordan said the "morning": that there is currently no practical steps to implement the project, is supposed to work by the end of 2020 and that the whole thing now , however , the government of
Iraq.
The planned arrival of the first barrels of oil through the pipeline in the first of next June, after the own territory tribes that passes by, where it will be covered with a depth meter, ending a transport tanker way, where it costs the transfer of a barrel to $ 14, while sold to Jordan to $ twenty, as the planned creation of a giant Iraqi refinery in Aqaba, for the liquidation of 300 thousand barrels per day, and provides project, "nearly three thousand jobs to support a Jordanian, and 10 thousand inside Iraq, the project provides for Jordan income is between $ 2-3 billion a year, and will feed into the parallel gas pipeline cities which passes
next to them.
and will open the way for Iraq to increase its exports of oil by one million barrels a day through the port of Aqaba, and is therefore aware of the importance of implementation to get rid of the burden of export north through Turkey, or south through the port of Umm Qasr narrow, where will be arriving to the city of Aqaba , a quantum leap, particularly with regard to his arrival to the shores of the Mediterranean, and if the optimists are expected to pump the first barrels in 2017, the security conditions prevented that, Protecting the oil line is not an easy task, in spite of its economic impact on Jordan, Iraq and some countries
Arabic.

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