Iraq begins implementation of oil pipeline project with Jordan during the next five months

The Iraqi Ambassador to Jordan, Safia al-Suhail, said that the start of the implementation of the oil pipeline project between Jordan and Iraq will be in four or five months, pointing to the completion of most of the necessary procedures for the implementation of the project.
The Ambassador added that the information circulated recently about the possibility of delayed implementation of the project is incorrect, because the decision taken by the federal government in Baghdad.
The project is estimated to cost about $ 18 billion and connects Basra (southern Iraq), through Anbar (west), to the port of Aqaba in Jordan.
According to the Jordanian Ministry of Energy, the export of one million barrels per day of Iraqi crude to Jordan, of which 150 thousand barrels to operate refinery Zarqa Jordan.
Jordan is also looking to supply crude oil, which it currently imports from Saudi Arabia at international prices, by tankers, and then by tanker from Aqaba to the country’s only oil refinery in Zarqa, east of Amman.

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