{"id":176039,"date":"2022-05-18T09:16:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T01:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=176039"},"modified":"2022-05-18T09:20:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T01:20:51","slug":"jordan-launches-oil-exploration-project-in-se-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=176039","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Launches Oil Exploration Project In SE Region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AMMAN, May 18 (NNN-PETRA) &#8211; Jordan will start an oil exploration project in the Sarhan well, south-eastern part of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jordan&#8217;s Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Saleh Kharabsheh, said yesterday that, the drilling operations of the project, at the depth of 1,400 to 1,750 metres, will start soon, according to a statement by the ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The location for the drilling was determined, as a result of a thorough study conducted by the ministry and the National Petroleum Company, in cooperation with international consulting companies, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project comes as part of the ministry&#8217;s efforts, to explore natural resources for increasing self-reliance and achieving energy security, noted the minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jordan has begun its national programme for oil exploration, about 30 years ago, and has discovered the Hamza field in 1983, and the Risha gas field in 1987, he added.&#8211; NNN-PETRA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMMAN, May 18 (NNN-PETRA) &#8211; Jordan will start an oil exploration project in the Sarhan well, south-eastern part of the country. Jordan&#8217;s Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Saleh Kharabsheh, said yesterday that, the drilling operations of the project, at the depth of 1,400 to 1,750 metres, will start soon, according to a statement by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":176041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176039"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176040,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176039\/revisions\/176040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/176041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}