AMMAN May 12. 2024 (Saba) - Jordanian media revealed, today, Sunday, that Iraqi oil exports to Jordan had stopped 20 days ago, without revealing the reasons behind this, shortly after Iraqi oil exports to Jordan were raised from ten thousand to 15 thousand barrels per day.
It quoted Jordanian energy expert Amer Al-Shoubaki as saying: The supply of Iraqi oil to Jordan has been halted since last April 22 until today... stressing the great damage and loss of benefit on both the Jordanian and Iraqi sides as a result of the cessation of this agreement, especially with Iraq’s need for another outlet to export oil.
Kirkuk after the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline between Iraq and Turkey was stopped, and a transport fleet of more than 500 trucks stopped working, except for logistical services.
Al-Shoubaki added: This agreement, and any economic agreement linking Iraq with Jordan or with any Arab country, was faced with opposition from political factions inside Iraq, and these factions are active according to the severity of the geopolitical risks in the region, and last November these factions were able to stop oil from Jordan for a week.
It recently resumed collecting signatures in the Iraqi Parliament to vote on the decision to stop oil exports to Jordan.
Al-Shoubaki explained that these factions are trying to show that the Iraqi side is a loser and that Jordan's interest is only in selling it oil at a preferential price, while ignoring the costs of transporting, storing, loading and exporting Kirkuk oil from northern Iraq to the Basra oil port in the far south, while the oil is exported to the Jordanian oil refinery on a regular basis directly, except for operating half of the transport fleet of Iraqi trucks according to the agreement between the two countries.
According to "Al-Sumaria News" website, the date of renewing the contract to sell oil to Jordan dates back to May 2023 last year, and it was agreed to renew the contract for a year, meaning it ends in the current month of May, at a rate of ten thousand barrels of oil per day, but Iraq has increased its oil exports since the beginning of this year to Jordan, from ten to 15 thousand barrels per day, which is a deal that experts considered a “win-win” to get rid of the accumulated oil production of Kirkuk oil due to the cessation of exports through the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
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resource : Saba
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