Egypt on Friday resumed its gas exports to Jordan after a 45-day stoppage of a pipeline near the Sinai town of Al-Arish, said Energy Minister Khalid Touqan. Since the April 27 blast at the pipeline, Jordan has been forced to incur extra costs associated with using heavy fuel to run its electricity generating plants, according to a report of the German Press Agency "DPA." Under an agreement signed in 2001, Jordan receives gas supplies from Egypt through the Arab gas pipeline, which travels northward to supply Syria and Lebanon and, later, Turkey.
