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Jordan is one of the most liberal countries in the Middle East allowing a debate to consider introducing a secular government. [73] In the 2010 Human Development Index, Jordan was placed in the "high human development" bracket and came 7th among Arab countries, after the Persian Gulf states and Lebanon. [74]
In general, Jordanian oil shales are of high quality, comparable to the western United States oil shale, although their sulfur content is usually higher. While the sulfur content of the most of oil shales in Jordan varies from 0.3 to 4.3%, the Jurf ed-Darawish and the Sultani deposits have sulfur content of 8 and 10% respectively. [3]
In October 2016, Jordan signed a power purchase agreement with Masdar, a clean energy developer based in Abu Dhabi, UAE to build the biggest single solar installation in the country, Baynouna Solar Power Plant, with a 200 MW capacity. The project became operational in 2020 and delivers the equivalent of 160,000 local households with their power ...
(The data below does not seem to include shale oil and other unconventional sources of oil such as tar sands. For instance, North America has over 3 trillion barrels of shale oil reserves, [ citation needed ] and the majority of oil produced in the US is from shale, leading to the paradoxical data below that the US will finish all its oil at ...
Country GDP nominal billions of USD List of countries by GDP (per capita) Qatar 235.5: 82,887 Israel 530.1: 55,359 Cyprus 26.7: 53,705 UAE 536.8: 52,407 Kuwait 183.6: 38,123
Countries Seen as Economically Stable With the World Bank forecasting growth of the global economy to slow in 2019 to 2.9 percent, countries that provide economic safe harbors for their citizens ...
Oil may get another run as liquid gold. Crude futures surged 9% last week — its biggest weekly gain since March 2023 — driven by escalating tensions in the Middle East.Israel’s vow to ...
Top 5 oil-producing countries 1980–2022 World oil production. This is a list of countries by oil production (i.e., petroleum production), as compiled from the U.S. Energy Information Administration database for calendar year 2023, tabulating all countries on a comparable best-estimate basis.