VOL. XXX

NO. 24

23-MARCH-1987

JORDAN

Details of New Production-Sharing Agreement with Petrofina

Details of the production-sharing concession agreement which was signed on 7March by Petrofina of Belgium and the Jordanian Ministry of Energy and MineralResources (MEES, 9 March) have now become available.

According to a Petrofina spokesman, the agreement has a 7-year term andcovers an area in east Jordan of 11,500 sq. kms. in the basalt (al-Bazil)plateau area of al-Azrak, where the company has...