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country.” Iran has been highly developing its large fire blazing the Trans-Israel energy Pipeline Company, which was still 50% owned
petrochemical industry over the past few years pipeline in Ashkelon, after a rocket from Gaza by Iran, was used in different capacities.
as the development of the giant South Pars hit a container at the plant during the rocket Under an arrangement reached with Russia
gas field (Iran shares with Qatar in the Persian fire Tuesday evening. in 2003, the company reversed the pipeline’s
Gulf) has been supplying more feedstock to It is believed that the blaze, whose flames direction in order to deliver oil from
the petrochemical units. rose hundreds of feet into the air Tuesday Novorossiysk to Ashkelon, pipe it through to
According to the National Petrochemical night, may take several days to completely Eilat and then ship it on to Asian markets.
Company (NPC), the second leap of the extinguish. Millions of gallons of oil are Starting in 1994, Iran began suing Israel
petrochemical industry is going to be realized believed to be held in the container, and the in international courts, claiming it was owed
in the current Iranian calendar year (started Home Front Command Center has called on money for EAPC’s revenues and assets. A
on March 21) to boost the country’s annual residents nearby to avoid leaving their homes, Swiss court ruled in 2016 that Israel owed Iran
petrochemical revenues up to $25 billion. to avoid breathing the toxic chemicals in the $1.1 billion plus interest for its share in the
The third leap of the industry, which is air. company. Israel never paid, citing the Trading
aimed to increase the revenues from the US energy corporation Chevron said it had with the Enemy Act.
mentioned sector to $37 billion, is also shut down the Tamar natural gas platform The pipeline has long been the subject of
planned to take place in the Iranian calendar off the Israeli coast on the instructions of the criticism by environmentalists, and has been
year 1404 (begins in March 2025). Energy Ministry on Wednesday. Israel said its party to several of Israel’s worst ecological
According to President Hassan Rouhani, energy needs would continue to be met. disasters over the years, including the massive
the country’s petrochemical production It is believed that the oil in the containers Nahal Zin oil spill of 2011 and the Evrona
capacity has nearly doubled over the past had come recently from the United Arab Nature Reserve oil spill in 2014.
eight years. “The petrochemical production Emirates, as part of an oil delivery agreement After the Abraham Accords normalized
capacity is expected to reach 100 million tons with the country that began just weeks earlier. relations between Israel and the United Arab
in the current year and this shows that a lot It has also been suggested that the container Emirates last year, an agreement was reached
of work has been done. the revenues from the may have been pierced by new, heavier rockets to transport Emirati oil from the Gulf of
petrochemical industry have helped us during that Hamas introduced in the latest round of Aqaba to the Mediterranean through the
the years of economic war and sanctions,” fighting. pipeline. The first oil deliveries from the UAE
Rouhani said earlier. The Trans-Israel pipeline has an interesting reached Eilat just weeks before the current
The president noted that 17 petrochemical history. The line runs from Eilat, on the round of violence with Gaza.
projects worth about $12 billion were planned Gulf of Aqaba at the northern tip of the Red JPOST
to be inaugurated across the country to realize Sea, through the Negev Desert region, on to
the second leap of the industry, of which 12 Ashkelon, a port city on the Mediterranean
were put into operation in the previous year Sea. TERMINALS & SHIPPING
and the rest will go operation this year. It was built in 1968 in a joint venture with
TEHRAN TIMES Iran, during a time when the two countries Jordan announces tender to
had close relations, and was intended to
transport crude oil from the Islamic Republic transport oil from Iraq
PIPELINES to customers in Europe and Israel.
The pipeline was a lifeline for both The Jordanian Ministry of Energy and
Fire continues to blaze at countries when Egypt closed the Suez Mineral Resources has launched a tender to
transport crude oil by road from the loading
Canal in 1967, and Iran had no other way
Ashkelon’s Trans-Israel to complete deliveries to Europe. However, site in Iraq to the Jordanian Petroleum
Refinery site in Zarqa at a rate of 10,000
that cooperation was canceled when the 1979
pipeline Islamic Revolution led the shah of Iran to barrels per day, an Iraqi government official
said.
sever all ties with the Jewish state.
Firefighters are still working to control the In the ensuing years, the Eilat-Ashkelon The official, who declined to be named,

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