AMMAN — The National Petroleum Company (NPC) plans
to increase Jordan’s gas production in the next three years, to reach 200
million cubic feet a day, according to the minister of energy and mineral
resources Saleh Al-Kharabsheh.
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Ministry spokesperson Mashhor Abu Eid told
Jordan
News that presently Jordan produces around 18 million cubic feet of gas per
day, and “the short-term plan is to reach 45 million cubic feet per day”.
“We have 14 gas wells in Jordan and while the
drilling process could discover more, the cost is still out of reach,” Abu Eid
said.
“Today Jordan consumes up to 350 million cubic feet
daily, and even if we reach the long-term plan, which is to produce 200 million
cubic feet per day, the difference will remain our main issue and the only
reason to import gas from external sources,” he added.
Hashim Akel, an energy expert, told
Jordan News that of the nine power plants Jordan has, only one, Risha power station,
produces electricity using local gas.
“The problem is not with the amount of gas produced,
but rather with the gas transfer process. In Jordan, we have only one gas pipe
that conveys gas from Risha well to Risha power station,” he said, which should
make “the process of gas transportation a top priority on the ministry’s
agenda”.
Another way to transport gas, Akel said, could be
through the gas liquefaction process, which, however, is very expensive.
According to Abu Eid, the
ministry is studying the possibility of cooperation with three companies “in
order to start the gas liquefaction process”.
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