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Iraq, Jordan Sign Oil $18bn Pipeline Deal Posted on 09 April 2013
Nihad Mossa, director general of the Ministry of Oil’s State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP), told The Jordan Times on Monday that Jordan and Iraq have signed an $18-billion agreement to build a double pipeline that will supply Jordan with crude oil and natural gas.
He added that the Iraqi government is keen to proceed with the plan and will begin immediately. The 1,680-kilometre double pipeline will pump one-million barrels of oil a day from Basra on the Arabian Gulf to Jordan’s Aqaba Port, and around 258 million cubic feet of gas.
From this, 150,000 barrels of oil will be used in Jordan, with the rest exported through Aqaba, generating an estimated $3 billion a year in revenues for Jordan, reports Al Bawaba. Approximately 100 million cubic feet of natural gas will fulfil Jordan’s gas requirements, with “the excess gas [being] used in pumping stations along the double pipeline”.
Thamer Ghadban, chief adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki and former oil minister, said that Jordan is the “nearest” country to Iraq, which is looking forward to enhance its relationship with neighbouring countries.
Ghadban added that Iraq has now a new vision to separate the political situation in the region from its economic plans, under which Baghdad is seeking to promote its oil, especially as Iraq is considered OPEC’s second exporting member.
The Iraqi government will finance the building of the section from Basra to Haditha on a EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contract, while the Haditha-to-Aqaba section will be built on a “build, operate, transfer” basis.
“This week we will invite selected companies to bid for the pipeline from Basra to Haditha and by the year-end we expect the designs to be ready for this part in order to proceed with the process,” Mossa said.
In the first quarter of 2014, a tender will be floated to build the pipeline from Haditha to Aqaba, Mossa said.
The project, which includes extending a sub-line to Jordan’s sole refinery in Zarqa, will be operational by the end of 2017, and will create about 10,000 jobs in Iraq and Jordan.
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Nihad Mossa, director general of the Ministry of Oil’s State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP), told The Jordan Times on Monday that Jordan and Iraq have signed an $18-billion agreement to build a double pipeline that will supply Jordan with crude oil and natural gas.
He added that the Iraqi government is keen to proceed with the plan and will begin immediately. The 1,680-kilometre double pipeline will pump one-million barrels of oil a day from Basra on the Arabian Gulf to Jordan’s Aqaba Port, and around 258 million cubic feet of gas.
From this, 150,000 barrels of oil will be used in Jordan, with the rest exported through Aqaba, generating an estimated $3 billion a year in revenues for Jordan, reports Al Bawaba. Approximately 100 million cubic feet of natural gas will fulfil Jordan’s gas requirements, with “the excess gas [being] used in pumping stations along the double pipeline”.
Thamer Ghadban, chief adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki and former oil minister, said that Jordan is the “nearest” country to Iraq, which is looking forward to enhance its relationship with neighbouring countries.
Ghadban added that Iraq has now a new vision to separate the political situation in the region from its economic plans, under which Baghdad is seeking to promote its oil, especially as Iraq is considered OPEC’s second exporting member.
The Iraqi government will finance the building of the section from Basra to Haditha on a EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contract, while the Haditha-to-Aqaba section will be built on a “build, operate, transfer” basis.
“This week we will invite selected companies to bid for the pipeline from Basra to Haditha and by the year-end we expect the designs to be ready for this part in order to proceed with the process,” Mossa said.
In the first quarter of 2014, a tender will be floated to build the pipeline from Haditha to Aqaba, Mossa said.
The project, which includes extending a sub-line to Jordan’s sole refinery in Zarqa, will be operational by the end of 2017, and will create about 10,000 jobs in Iraq and Jordan.
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