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Jordan's Strategic Decision to Buy Israeli Gas
(Washington Institute for Near East Policy) Simon Henderson - The notion of Jordan buying large quantities of gas from Israel to generate the bulk of its electricity is commercially logical but politically fraught, since most Jordanians do not want their country to buy Israeli gas. But the deal has become economically necessary since Egyptian gas is no longer available. When gas starts flowing in late 2019, Leviathan production will double the amount of gas being produced off Israel's coast. The Tamar field is already responsible for more than half of Israel's electricity generation, and later this year a small portion of its supplies will flow to two industrial plants in southern Jordan. The writer is director of the Gulf and Energy Policy Program at the Washington Institute.