据管道新闻网4月19日消息称，约旦和伊拉克即将获得一条180亿美元的石油管道的最终批准，这条石油管道将从伊拉克城市巴士拉，每天输送100万桶石油，途经约旦港口亚喀巴，穿过红海，抵达埃及。

约旦下议院能源委员会主席Jamal Gammoh表示，在三个国家就延长通往埃及的天然气管道达成协议后，两国正在加快管道的准备工作。这一新的石油来源将满足埃及的需求，并为伊拉克提供新的出口机会到目前为止，包括管道轨道、部件、吸收能力、资金来源和业务手段在内的规划安排已经完成。

如果得到伊拉克部长理事会的批准，约旦和伊拉克将签署一项最后协议。伊拉克驻安曼大使Safia Al-Suhail表示，拟议中的输油管道沿线地区状况导致了工程延期。

约旦已经得到承诺，伊拉克每天向约旦提供1万桶石油，占约旦石油需求的7%。约旦官员希望这条新管道将减少从沙特阿拉伯的进口。沙特阿拉伯以国际价格购买石油，用于油轮运输。

曹海斌 摘译自 管道新闻网

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Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq Set to Build $18 Billion Oil Pipeline

Jordan and Iraq are nearing final approval for an $18 billion oil pipeline that would carry 1 MMbpd of oil from the Iraqi city of Basra through the Jordanian port of Aqaba and across the Red Sea to Egypt.

The head of Jordan’s Lower House Energy Committee, MP Jamal Gammoh, said that both countries are accelerating preparations for the pipeline after an agreement was reached between all three nations to extend the pipeline into Egypt. This new source of oil would supply Egypt’s needs as well as open Iraqi oil to new export opportunities. So far, planning arrangements including the pipeline’s track, components, absorptive capacity, funding sources, and operational means have already been completed.

If approved by the Iraqi Council of Ministers, a final agreement will be signed between Jordan and Iraq. Conditions in areas along the proposed pipeline’s path have led to delays, according to the Iraqi Ambassador in Amman, Safia Al-Suhail.

Jordan has already been promised 10,000 bpd from Iraq, which accounts for 7 percent of the country’s needs. Jordanian officials hope the new pipeline will reduce imports from Saudi Arabia, where it purchases oil at international prices for transport on tanker ships.