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Iraq operates the first natural gas field in Basra

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Iraq operates the first natural gas field in Basra

2018/4/25 12:01

Iraq operates the first natural gas field in Basra

(Baghdad: Al-Furat News) Oil Minister Jabbar Ali al-Allaibi opened the central production plant for the gas field in Basrah province and started the first commercial production of the plant with 25 million standard cubic feet per day, the first of its kind in Iraq.
"The ministry has achieved a qualitative achievement in the gassector and within the objectives planned for the optimal investment of the national gas invaders," a statement of the ministry received the Minister of Oil as saying that "the production achieved is the initial production up to the production of the peak end Which is estimated at 100 million standard cubic feet per day.
He added that "the project will add new quantities of gas to national production will contribute to the supply of power plants in good quantities of dry gas, as well as the production of liquid gas in the amount of 1200 cubic meters per day, in addition to 19 thousand barrels per day of condensate," adding that "this The project is a real breakthrough for the investment of gas in the rest of the other fields, which we have developed ambitious plans to invest gas in cooperation with international companies, and to achieve the goals that make Iraq among the producing and exporting gas.
"The field will depend on the self-operation of power stations and not on national electricity," al-Allaibi said.
"The oil minister praised the efforts of the oil sector workers in cooperation with Kuwait Energy and the Turkish company Tabbo and others who have managed to realize the dream for many years and turn it into a reality.
He pointed out that "the ministry has adopted in the development of oil and gas fields to oblige the contracting companies to train and qualify the workers and to provide the environment and the appropriate conditions, as well as to provide employment opportunities for the people of Basra, as well as the company to implement more than 28 projects of social services.
He explained, "The Ministry of Oil has achieved during the last few steps important steps and achievements aimed at accelerating the development of oil and gas fields and interest in the advancement of the liquidation sector and infrastructure and others, and in the gas investment sector accompanying we have come an important step in this context where the gas investment reached 60% Of this wealth and we are working to invest the remaining quantities and stop burning completely during the next few years through contracting with international companies solid, including a contract for the investment of gas in the field of Nahran Omar and the holding of gas investment in the fields of Nasiriyah and Gharraf, Gas fields in Maysan and thus Iraq will be transferred to the country of source of this wealth has been wasted over the past decades. "
"The Saybah field was discovered in 1967, where the first well was drilled," said Assem Jihad, a spokesman for the ministry. "Commercial deposits of condensed gas were discovered, followed by drilling of the Seba 2 wells in 1972, and development and exploration stopped until 1993, 3} and was considered outside the installation, and stopped work in this field to 2011 where the contract was transferred to develop the field to the company {Kuwait Energy}, which won the contract development within the third licensing round.
He pointed out that the contract "included the process of rehabilitation and development of the field in many stages, including the removal of mines and ballistics and war mudslides and cleared and cleaned by the national effort, followed by direct three-dimensional seismic surveys by the Petroleum Exploration Company, a national effort also, 1.5 trillion cubic feet. "
"Jihad is the first gas field to start production," he said, adding that "the first field containing natural gas in the ground as a hydrocarbon gas installation, not the investment of gas associated with an oil field, where the field is one of the most important three fields Ghaziya in Iraq, along with Akkas field in Anbar province and Mansuriya field in Diyala province. "

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