Azerbaijan, Baku, March 7 / Trend A. Taghiyeva /
Jordan is considering purchases of Azerbaijani liquefied gas, Jordanian Energy Ministry official Mahmoud Al-Eys told Trend today.
"Jordan is still interested in buying Azerbaijani gas," he said. "We consider the import of liquefied natural gas from Azerbaijan as an option."
The project to export liquefied natural gas from Azerbaijan will become clearer after a new terminal for receiving liquefied natural gas in the Jordanian port of Aqaba is constructed, he said.
He said Azerbaijani gas imports to Jordan by sea will cost less.
The AGRI project envisages transporting Azerbaijani gas via pipelines to the Black Sea coast of Georgia, where the gas will be liquefied at a special terminal. The gas will then be delivered to a terminal at the Romanian port of Constanta via tankers.
The participants in the AGRI project are the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), the Georgian Oil and Gas Corporation, as well as the MVM Company (Hungary) and Romgaz (Romania). Chairman of AGRI Board of Directors is SOCAR's Deputy Vice-President on Investment and Marketing, Vitaly Beylarbeyov.
The capacity of the AGRI Project is considered in three variants - 2 billion cubic meters of gas per year, 5 billion cubic meters and 8 billion cubic meters. According to preliminary data, depending on the project capacity, its costs will vary from 1.2 billion to 4.5 billion
euros.