AMMAN — A fresh
bid to explore oil in the Al-Jafr and Al-Sarhan regions, in the south and
northeast, respectively, is planned to start in February of next year,
according to a Tuesday statement by
Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources
Saleh Kharabsheh.
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The ministry has already
started collecting seismic survey data for those areas, and a company specialized
in the field will be contracted to process and analyze the data, Kharabsheh
said.
He expected that the next
two years would see a strong move towards oil and gas exploration in most
regions of the Kingdom by analyzing 2,000km of two-dimensional seismic survey
lines and inviting interested companies to obtain an exploration license.
As for the Hamza oil
field, Kharabsheh indicated that the ministry is following up on studies to
increase its productivity by drilling three new deep wells in August next year.
"Two other previously drilled wells will also be added to the study to
ascertain their production capacities," he added.
Moreover, a detailed
study of the East Al-Jafr region is currently underway to drill three
medium-depth wells, in cooperation with the National Petroleum Company,
according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
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