First shipment of Iraqi oil reached Jordan Tuesday under the agreement signed in 2006.
The Jordanian Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Khaldoun Qutaishat said that 16 trucks loaded with oil arrived in Jordanian-Iraqi border of the total amount that had been charged from the Baiji power plant in Iraq over the past three days, amounting to 18.5 thousand barrels.

Qutaishat added that the shipment will reach Jordanian border to the oil refinery in the city of Zarqa (23 km northeast of Amman) by Jordanian trucks.

 
Jordan and Iraq signed in August 2006 at the Baghdad Convention states to provide the Kingdom between 10 and 30% of the oil needs of around 100 thousand barrels per day at preferential prices from September of that year.

 
But a few shipments of oil arrived in Jordan from the Kirkuk oilfields in tanks in September 2007 in accordance with the agreement after a lapse of years, and officials blamed a technical difficulties and security.

 
Jordanian Prime Minister Nader al-Zahabi on 12 of last June said that Iraq and Jordan agreed to the extension of the Convention signed between them to provide the Kingdom of Iraqi oil at discounted prices for three years.

 
Even in 2003 Jordan got all its oil needs from Iraq at preferential prices, in addition to a free annual oil donation worth 300 million dollars, but that stopped with the fall of the former Iraqi regime and the occupation of Iraq by international coalition led by the United States.