Special to WorldTribune.com

AMMAN — Egypt has rejected a Jordanian offer to help protect an
embattled natural gas pipeline in the Sinai Peninsula.

A senior Jordanian official said Cairo dismissed a Hashemite kingdom
offer to help protect the Arab Gas Pipeline, meant to provide more than 60
percent of Jordan’s gas requirements. Jordanian government spokesman Rakan
Majali said Amman offered to train security personnel and install
surveillance systems along the route of the Sinai pipeline, bombed at least
10 times in 2011.

“The occasional cut in gas supplies is a problem for us,” Majali
said. “It is disruptive.”

Jordan has already agreed to a significant price increase of Egyptian
gas. At one point, neighboring Israel received nearly 50 percent of its gas
requirements from the Arab Gas Pipeline.

  Amman, Arab Gas Pipeline, Cairo, Egypt turns down Jordan offer to secure pipeline attacked 10 times in 2011, Rakan Majali, Sinai Peninsula