Egypt to re-pump gas to Jordan mid next week

Some sources at the Jordanian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has said that Egypt is expected to re-pump gas gradually to Jordan in mid next week. In press remarks published here Thursday , the sources added that more talks were conducted with the Egyptian delegation who visited Amman earlier Wednesday and which focussed on the gas agreement with Jordan including prices and quantities and gave no further details. Meanwhile the Egyptian authorities had indicated promising progress on ongoing repairs on the Arab Gas Pipeline, which was damaged in a February 5 explosion in Al Arish. In the meantime, Egypt has granted Jordan electricity via a 500-megawatt capacity cable that runs underneath the Red Sea in order to compensate for the disrupted gas supplies, which the Kingdom relies on for 80 per cent of its electricity generation.