Jordan plans drilling campaign to bolster gas supplies

Jordan’s state-owned National Petroleum Company (NPC) plans to drill 145 wells at the country’s Risha gas field through to 2030 to help reduce its reliance on imports, local newspapers reported.

The company’s 2025-30 plan targets the production of 418 million cubic feet of gas, Jordan Times newspaper reported, citing NPC director-general Mohammed Khasawneh. It did not specify the timeframe for the production amount. 

Gas production per well varies widely across the world, starting at 100,000 cubic feet per day to as much as 50 million cubic feet per day. A single US household uses about 200 cubic feet per day.

The NPC strategy will see the expansion of a gas processing plant there, and technical and financial studies for constructing a gas pipeline.

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The Risha field in the country’s north east is estimated to contain almost 12 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves, of which a little under half or 4.7 trillion is recoverable.

Khasawneh said the company is working to increase production at Risha to deliver more gas to the industrial sector and reduce the country’s energy import bill.

Since 2022, Jordan has focused on oil and gas exploration, with the NPC spearheading development with international companies.