Egyptian gas for Jordan

Aqaba district authority has signed an agreement with the US Amoco company providing for installing 700 to 800 km of land and sea pipelines from the Nile Delta to Amman via Aqaba port by the year 2001 to export Egyptian gas to Jordan.

Aqaba authority chairman Marwan Dudin said a memorandum of understanding was signed between the two sides providing for using the Jordanian territories to erect a gas pipelines to feed major Jordanian thermal stations and factories. According to the agreement, Aqaba authority offered the implementing company the right to deliver the Egyptian gas within a lease contract.