Daily News Egypt: Egypt Begins to Import 200m cubic feet of LNG per day from Jordan

Egypt started importing about 200 m cubic feet of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per day by from Jordan since last September, to provide a part of the country's needs of gas during the coming period.

A senior official at the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) told Daily News Egypt that an agreement has been signed with Jordan to take advantage of the excess capacity of gas from the gasification ship in Jordan and supply LNG shipments to Egypt.

He added that the gas is imported through the pipeline, through which Egypt exported gas to Jordan in 2004, noting that this was not possible since the first half of 2014 due to the lack of gas.

The official said that this line was bombed more than 20 times, noting that Egypt had signed a 15-year agreement with Jordan in 2004 for the supply of 250m cubic feet of LNG per day at a price of $ 2.5 per million British thermal units (BTU ), and that the government raised gas prices in April 2011 to $ 5.7 per million BTUs. MORE