Jordan Oil Shale Power Plant
Attarat Power Plant is a planned oil shale-fueled power plant at Attarat Umm Ghudran area in Jordan. The agreement between the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and National Electricity Power Company of Jordan, and Estonian power company Eesti Energia was signed on 30 April 2008. According to the agreement, Eesti Energia has exclusive rights to build an oil shale-fired power plant. The project is developed in the partnership with YTL Power International and Near East Investments of Jordan, and will be operated by Attarat Power Company.
The power plant will have two circulating-fluidized-bed units with 230 MW capacity both. The tender was announced in 2012. The power plant is expected to be operational by 2016. When constructed, it will be among the largest power plants in Jordan (the largest being Aqaba Thermal Power Station), and the largest oil shale-fired power plant in the world after Narva Power Plants in Estonia.
The power plant would consumes consume 10 million tons of oil shale per year. It would need over its 40-years lifetime an oil-shale mining area of approximately 11 square kilometres (4.2 sq mi). The mining services will be outsourced.
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