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March 7th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Jordanian Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Qutaiba Abu Qoura said on Tuesday that the latest bomb attack on the Arab Gas Pipeline in the Sinai Peninsula on Monday “completely cut” the supply of gas to Jordan.
“It would be great if Egypt can prove they can secure the pipeline, but it is clear that Jordan can no longer rely on Egyptian gas,” Abu Qoura added.
He went on to say that Amman plans to sign a deal with a Persian Gulf Arab country to take delivery of liquid gas by sea on a streamliner, prior to the construction of a liquid gas terminal at the only Jordanian seaport, Aqaba.
“Right now this is the main option before us,” he said.
The kingdom depends on Egyptian gas for 80 percent of its electricity generation needs.
Egypt supplies Jordan with 6.8 million cubic meters of gas per day at preferential prices under a 16-year contract which Cairo and Amman signed in 2001.
Jordan’s power plants have been forced to use oil reserves as a result of the attacks on the pipeline. The alternative energy usage cost Amman 1.4 billion dollars last year while it is expected to rise to 2.8 billion dollars in 2012.
On Monday, a section of the Egyptian pipeline supplying gas to Israel and Jordan was blown up in the thirteenth attack on the energy link since January 2011.
The gas pipeline’s operations were suspended after the last bomb attack on February 5, and it was only brought back into service last week.
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