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...Saudi Aramco and the government’s information ministry declined to comment....
...Surely Israel would become the largest market for this gas, even if some goes to Jordan (from 2020) and Turkey in the years afterward....
...The company operates in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel and the United Arab Emirates, and Cairo is one of its fastest-growing cities....
...rightwing government is rallying to rescue a troubled plan to develop a $6.5bn natural gasfield on which the country’s energy security rests, along with long-term export contracts with neighbouring Egypt and Jordan...
...Abut half of Jordan’s population are Palestinians....
...In 2010 Israel’s ministry of finance appointed a committee which increased the government’s take of gas companies’ profits from 35 per cent to as much as 65 per cent, angering investors in the sector....
...“The natural resources of the state of Israel are a public asset,” Mr Lapid said in a press release published on Wednesday by his ministry....
...Gas from the Tamar field, the smaller of Israel’s two biggest offshore reservoirs, began to flow at 4pm on Saturday, the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources said....
...They noted that the 30 minute call took place at Tel Aviv airport just before the US president left for Jordan and that Mr Obama himself participated in part of the conversation....
...On top of that, Cordiant Capital Inc. announced on Thursday it has committed to a $10 million loan to the JIFC. Jordan hopes the plant will boost its economy....
...The Singapore finance ministry told parliament in February that the value of Temasek’s portfolio had dropped to S$127bn between April 1 and November 30 last year because of the global financial turmoil,...
...By his own estimation, Mr Shamari is now a millionaire, with a restaurant in Jordan and a boat in Dubai, the embodiment of an Iraqi version of the American dream....
...The result was the Jordan Education Initiative, an e-learning project for secondary schools developed with the Kingdom of Jordan and a number of technology companies....
...Although EDS, whose clients include the UK’s Ministry of Defence, saw a sharp pick-up in new business in the period, including an extension of the Navy contract and several billion dollars of new business...
...While US agencies tend to favour private contractors, the reconstruction ministry keeps its own stable of state-owned builders busy too....
...Negotiations took place in Jordan, lasting from October until earlier this month....
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