Jordan and China on Tuesday signed an agreement for cooperation in the sphere of peaceful uses of nuclear energy, particularly in electricity generation and water desalination, an official statement said. The accord provides for cooperation between the two countries in "basic and applied research and development of peaceful uses of nuclear energy, building and operation of nuclear energy stations and reactors, exploration of minerals and disposal of nuclear waste", the statement added....From Agence France Presse via Breitbart:
Jordan, Shell in talks to extract oil from huge shale reserves
Energy-poor Jordan said on Sunday it was in talks with Anglo-Dutch group Royal Dutch Shell on an agreement to extract oil from the desert kingdom's 40-billion-tonne oil shale reserves.......Jordan, which imports 95 per cent of its energy needs and struggling to meet growing needs, has the world's fourth largest reserves of oil shale, from which petroleum can be extracted by distillation....
