IRAQ: IRAQI AND JORDANIAN OIL MINISTERS SIGN PROTOCOL FOR COOPERATION FOR THEIR OIL INDUSTRIES

Record ID: 344891

  • Title: IRAQ: IRAQI AND JORDANIAN OIL MINISTERS SIGN PROTOCOL FOR COOPERATION FOR THEIR OIL INDUSTRIES
  • Date: 21st November 2002
  • Summary: (W4) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (NOVEMBER 21, 2002)(REUTERS) 1. SMV U.N. HEADQUARTERS / IRAQI SOLDIER STANDING WITH GUN ON HIS SHOULDER GUARDING THE U.N. COMPOUND 0.06 2. CLOSE OF UNITED NATIONS FLAG 0.11 3. DLV TWO IRAQI SOLDIERS STANDING IN ROAD OUTSICE COMPOUND 0.15 4. SLV UNITED NATIONS CAR DRIVING OUT OF COMPOUND 0.25 5. WIDE OF EXT
  • Embargoed: 6th December 2002 12:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA68XTDXNB3KS5AVKFG4WHZ35XM
  • Story Text: Iraq and Jordan have signed a protocol for oil
    cooperation. The two countries' oil ministers expressed
    eagerness to enhance oil relations between their states.



    Iraq and Jordan signed an accord on Thursday (November
    21, 2002) further strengthening oil relations.

    Iraqi Oil Minister Amir Mohammed Rasheed met with
    Jordanian Energy Minister Mohammed Al-Bitaena at the U.N.

    headquarters in Baghdad to sign a protocol for oil
    cooperation. The pact promises that Iraq will sustain all of
    Jordan's crude oil and oil product needs.

    "The agreement provides for Iraq's commitment to supply
    Jordan with all its needs of crude oil and oil products, as it
    (the accord) also expresses President Saddam Hussein's
    assistance to Jordan by offering a financial gift estimated at
    300 million dollars worth of oil and its byproducts," Rasheed
    said.

    The Jordanian Ministers of Energy and Trade arrived in
    Baghdad on Tuesday (November 19). In a statement to Iraqi News
    Agency (INA) they said that the visit had fallen within the
    context of expanding and enhancing cooperation in field of
    oil, electric power and following up the establishment of an
    oil pipe between Iraq and Jordan.

    They expressed their country's willingness and eagerness
    to develop and boost commercial and economic cooperation with
    Iraq.

    Al-Bitaena said both countries had agreed to use the
    Iraq-Jordanian pipe line in the future to transfer crude oil.

    "[The oil pipe line] will start working early next year
    from the Jordanian borders till the Jordanian refinery as a
    first stage and the second stage from Iraqi-Jordanian borders
    to Iraq, as there is a technical cooperation between the
    technical organs in both sides to develop and carry out joint
    geological and oil studies," Al-Bitaena said.


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