Jordan denies differences with Arab states involved in gas project

The secretary general of the Jordanian ministry of energy and mineral resources Azmi Khreisat has denied the existence of differences with states involved with the project to erect a natural gas pipeline from Egypt to al-Aqaba and then to Syria and Lebanon throughout the Jordanian territories.

In a statement he made in Amman on Mondya, Khreisat considered that the project to erect the pipeline will be implemented within the set time and program agreed upon between Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt, noting that the main committee of the project, composed of the four states, had agreed to divert the gas pipeline track from a sea route into a land route that starts from al-Areesh in Egypt and ends in Turkey.

Khreisat said that Jordan signed with Egypt, according to that, a draft agreement to sell and transfer Egyptian natural gas to Jordan and that this gas to be imported as from next year.