Jordan continues to receive natural gas supplies from Egypt via the Arab Gas Pipeline despite the ongoing political turmoil in the North African state, an official at the Jordanian energy ministry said Tuesday.
Jordan
continues to receive natural gas supplies from
Egypt
via
the Arab Gas Pipeline despite the ongoing political turmoil in the North
African state, an official at the Jordanian energy ministry said Tuesday.
"We are still receiving gas from
Egypt
at
agreed quantities and on a daily basis," the official told Dow Jones
Newswires.
The amounts of gas supplied to the kingdom from Egypt has began to rise since
last December to reach "240 million cubic feet a day" and that level
was preserved in January, Jordan's National Electricity Co. head Ghaleb Maabreh
said in a separate statement posted in the company's web site.
He added that
Jordan
and
Egypt
also
continue to exchange electricity via 500-megawatt cable running beneath the
Red
Sea
, which also supplies power to
Syria
and
Lebanon
. Currently
60% of
Jordan
's
electricity is generated from natural gas, the bulk of which is imported from
Egypt
.
Jordan
and
Egypt
signed an agreement in 2004 for the supply of 240 million cubic feet a day, or
2.48 billion cubic meters a year, of Egyptian gas at preferential price via the
Arab Gas Pipeline, with the option of raising total supply by a further 900
million cubic meters a year.
The pipeline runs from
Egypt
to
Jordan
and
extends to
Syria
and
Lebanon
.
Egypt
agreed in October to resume exports of natural gas to
Jordan
to
levels stipulated under the 2004 bilateral agreement after supplies dropped
below the agreed volumes because of domestic gas shortages in
Egypt
,
Jordan
's
official news agency
Petra
reported at the time.
Jordan
suffered power cuts last summer when it received below-average natural gas
supplies from
Egypt
,
which also suffered from high demand during the summer months.
The Jordanian energy ministry has plans to import gas from other countries in
the region including
Qatar
to
meet domestic demand.
Jordan
's
Prime Minister Samir Rafai discussed with Qatari officials in
Doha
during a recent visit the possibility of importing gas from the gas-rich Gulf
Arab state.
The kingdom imports some 95% of its energy needs at a cost of around 19% of its
gross domestic product.
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