New oil pipeline between Jordan and Iraq

Jordanian and Iraqi delegations next week will start studies on steps to prepare to build an oil pipeline for transferring crude oil from the Iraqi al-Haditha area to the site of the Jordanian oil refinery in al-Zarka city.

The Jordanian daily al-Aswaq (markets) quoted secretary general of the Jordanian Energy Ministry, Ahmad al-Bashir, who will hold the talks in this respect with the Iraqi officials in Baghdad, as saying that talks will tackle in detail practical plans for building a 750-km pipeline at a cost of US $250 million.

Al-Bashir added that the new pipeline will substitute the process of transporting Iraqi oil products by tanks to Jordan. Its capacity will be 150,000 barrels of oil per day.