Shell to provide 40 per cent of Jordan’s electricity generation needs

• 9 years ago (2015-10-19)
• David Flin

Middle East 326

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Royal Dutch Shell has won a two-year contract to provide Jordan with 59.13 trillion BTUs of LNG in 2016 and 2017. Abdel Fattah Daradkeh, Director General of Jordan’s National Electric Power Company, said that this would cover about 40 per cent of Jordan’s annual electricity needs.

Under the terms of the two-year deal, Shell will provide Jordan with 18 to 20 shipments of LNG per year. Each shipment will be about 3.2 trillion BTUs, according to Daradkeh. Daradkeh said: “We greatly rely on LNG for power generation at this stage. In addition to the deals with Shell, we also floated a tender to buy LNG from international spot markets.”

Jordan, which imports about 97 per cent of its energy needs, became an importer of LNG after the opening of a terminal for receiving it in Aqaba in mid-2015. Jordan had switched to importing diesel and heavy fuel for power generation after repeated cuts in natural gas supply from Egypt, and a complete halt to supplies from early 2014.