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Iraq seeks to increase
gas capture from Zubair
IRAQ THE Iraqi Ministry of Oil (MoO) this week capacity from 35 mmcf (991,000 cubic metres)
announced plans to increase the capture of per day to 147 mmcf per day.”
gas associated with oil production from the He added: “The five new compressors will
giant Zubair oilfield in the southern Basra contribute to increasing the ability to collect
Governorate. associated gas and reducing the rate of flaring in
In a statement provided to the Iraqi News the Zubair oil field.”
Agency (INA), the MoO said that associated gas Meanwhile, BGC managing director
from Zubair would increase to 147mn cubic feet Andrew Weber said: “Our goal in this project
(4.2mn cubic metres) per day. is to support the vision of the Ministry of Oil
It said that the Basra Gas Co. (BGC) had to increase production capacity to reduce gas
been authorised to purchase and install five flaring in southern Iraq and convert associated
new compressors at the Hammar Mishrif sta- gas into clean energy,” supplying gas to power
tion. This will collect and process 80 mmcf (2.3 stations.
mcm) per day of additional associated gas. Italian major Eni operates the 6.4bn barrel
“This came after the meeting of the Joint Zubair oilfield, though its concession is limited
Higher Management Committee of the BGC, to the extraction of oil.
and under the direction of the Deputy Prime It has engaged the state-owned Iraqi Drilling
Minister for Energy Affairs and Oil Minister Co. (IDC) and US services specialist Schlum-
Hayan Abdulghani,” the statement added. berger on a 37-well drilling campaign that will
Hamza Abdel-Baqi, director-general of the enable the production to be increased from
South Gas Co. (SGC), said that “the new project 475,000 barrels per day to 850,000 bpd by 2027.
aims to raise the number of compressors at the IDC has completed eight of the 37 wells have
Hammar Mishrif station to 11 compressors as a now been completed, most recently finalising
total that contributes to raising the compressor work on well 551 in September in just 22 days.
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