{"id":1121,"date":"2018-07-05T17:36:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T17:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euromenaenergy.com\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2018-07-05T17:36:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T17:36:07","slug":"jordan-pipeline-for-israeli-gas-set-for-completion-by-end-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/?p=1121","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Pipeline for Israeli Gas Set for Completion by End of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pipeline to transport\u00a0$10 billion worth\u00a0of natural gas over 15 years from Israel\u2019s Leviathan field into Jordan will be completed by the end of 2019, according to the company buying the fuel.<\/p>\n

Engineers building a 65-kilometer (40-mile) pipeline from Jordan\u2019s border with Israel northward across Mafraq province will finish their work on time to receive first gas from Leviathan at the start of 2020,\u00a0Abdel Fattah Daradkeh, director general of Jordan\u2019s National Electric Power Co., said in a phone interview. A section of pipeline to move gas from the offshore field through Israel to the border is also under construction, he said.<\/div>\n

After years of legal and regulatory logjams, the companies developing Leviathan are making significant progress to honor multibillion-dollar export deals. About\u00a054 percent\u00a0of the nearly $4 billion Leviathan project has been completed, the companies said this week. Jordan, with negligible energy resources of its own, would become Israel\u2019s first buyer for gas from the Mediterranean reservoir.<\/p>\n

Nepco agreed in September 2016 to buy about 3 billion cubic meters of gas per year from the Leviathan partners, under a 15-year contract. That supply, coupled with renewed flows of Egyptian gas in the future, will be enough to meet domestic demand by 2020, Jordan\u2019s Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications Jumana Ghunaimat said Tuesday in a phone interview.<\/p>\n

The Israeli government has pushed for gas exports as a way to strengthen economic ties with Arab neighbors. Gas from Israel\u2019s\u00a0Tamar field\u00a0has been flowing to Jordan since the beginning of 2017.<\/span>Jordan imported gas from Egypt until attacks by militants on the Egyptian pipeline network and rising local demand led the North African nation to halt shipments in 2013. Egypt is on track to export gas again since the discovery in 2015 of the mammoth Zohr field. Jordan will start receiving liquefied natural gas from Egypt under a seven-year deal from Jan. 1, Jordanian former Energy Minister Saleh Al-Kharabsheh said in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A pipeline to transport\u00a0$10 billion worth\u00a0of natural gas over 15 years from Israel\u2019s Leviathan field into Jordan will be completed by the end of 2019, according to the company buying the fuel….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,57,90,96,107,137,139,174,201,202,209,232,233,244,246,249,256,277,279,288],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aramco","tag-baroudi","tag-democracy","tag-doha","tag-embargo","tag-gas","tag-gazprom","tag-lebanon","tag-offshore","tag-oil","tag-opec","tag-putin","tag-qatar","tag-rosneft","tag-roudi","tag-russia","tag-saudi","tag-total","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}