AMMAN — Some 300 tanker trucks carrying 60,000 barrels of
oil from Iraq were expected to arrive in the Kingdom Sunday, following a supply
suspension last February, Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
اضافة اعلان
Nael Thiabat,
Deputy Chief of the Jordan Truck Owners Association (JTOA), said Sunday that
the oil shipment was now at the Jordanian-Iraqi borders and is in transit to
Jordanian soil.
He noted that the
crude oil supply from
Iraq was suspended about two months ago due to a number
of logistical issues.
Under an agreement,
Iraq supplies Jordan with about 300,000 barrels of oil monthly at an average of
10,000 barrels daily.
Meanwhile, the
Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources denied that Jordan buys crude oil from
Iraq at $16 a barrel, stressing that the memorandum of understanding between
the two countries states the price of crude oil to Jordan will is determined by
“the monthly
Brent crude oil rate minus $16 per barrel,” according to Jo24.
In response to a parliamentary question by MP Khaled Al-Shalul, the ministry added that the difference between the price of Brent
crude and the purchase price of Iraqi oil goes mostly to cover the differences
in transport wages in addition to quality differences, which require higher
costs for processing and refining.
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