نقلت صحيفة كورية رسمية عن رجل الاعمال الكوري والمدير التنفيذي لشركة الطاقة الكورية العالمية بارك تشونج قوله انه قام بتوقيع اتفاقية تنقيب عن النفط مع الحكومة الأردنية تحصل بموجبه الشركة الكورية على ما نسبته 32,7% من اجمالي الانتاج المقدر ب1,1 مليار برميل في المرحلة الاولى.

وقالت الصحيفة نقلا عن تشونغ أن لدى الأردن مخزوناً ضخماً من النفط على امتداد اراضيه يقدر بـ7 مليار برميل .

وذكر في مقالة معلومات كانت الشركة الاميركية ترانس جلوبل قد قدمتها ووتقثها سابقا لسلطة المصادر الطبيعية واعتبرتها السلطة في حينها أنها غير دقيقة وغير صحيحة ووصل الحال بان قامت السلطة باقصاء الشركة الأميركية واستبعادها.

واليوم يظهر ان السلطة قررت ان تتعامل مع الشركة الكورية المزعومة كما نقلت الصحيفة على لسان رجل الاعمال الكوري .

ما كشفه رجل الاعمال الكوري يثير الكثير من الاسئلة فما حقيقة تصريح الرجل حول امتلاك الأردن مخزونا ضخما من النفط ، فما السر وراء استبعاد الشركة الاميركية؟، وهل يعقل أن يعلن خبر توقيع الاتفاقية في الصحف الكورية قبل أن تعلنه حكومة الاردن؟

وهنا نص ما نشرته الصحيفة الكورية :

Local company eyeing 1/3 share in Jordan oil field

] 2012. 02. 16.(.) .. 10:05

A Korean energy developer said yesterday that it has obtained approval from Jordan to negotiate a deal for the

development of a massive oil field in the western part of the Middle Eastern country.

The Jordanian cabinet approved a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on negotiations for a final agreement

on Tuesday to explore the field with an estimated reserve of more than 1.1 billion barrels, said Park Cheong-sig,

president and CEO of Korea Global Energy Corp.

(KGEC).

A signing ceremony will soon be held.

Under the MOU, both sides will have up to four months to conclude their negotiations for a production sharing

agreement (PSA), which will entitle the Korean company to 32.7 percent of total output from the oil field.

"Negotiations for the PSA will likely be concluded at an early date as most details for the agreement have

already been discussed during our negotiations for the MOU," Park told Yonhap News Agency.

Under the proposed PSA, KGEC will have to drill three exploration holes within the next four years, but Park said

the oil field could begin commercial production as early as 2014.

The agreement, if signed under the currently proposed terms, will give the Korean company 32.7 percent of total

production at the field, which could translate into 376 million barrels out of the 1.15 billion barrels in probable

reserves, he said.

The proposed project covers about 6,819 square kilometers (2,633 square miles) of land in the Dead Sea and

Wadi Araba block, which according to Park has a "probable," or more commonly referred to as P2, oil reserve

of 1.15 billion barrels.

The U.S.

firm that discovered it, Park said, claims the area could hold up to 7 billion barrels of oil in P3, or estimated

reserves, and was planning to begin commercial production next year before its relations with the Jordanian

government went sour.

KGEC, upon signing the proposed PSA with Jordan's National Resources Authority, will replace the U.S.

firm as the sole developer of the field in the southern basin of the Dead Sea.

The reserve, if confirmed, will mark the largest find in the Middle Eastern country where the existence of any

large commercial oil deposit is often subject to heated debates.

A Blue House official said such a find was still possible.

"It is true that Jordan is located near large oil producing countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran," the

official said earlier, speaking on condition of anonymity.