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Baker Hughes to build
Iraqi gas processing plant
IRAQ US firm Baker Hughes has landed a contract to Gharraf. The plan was to use modular skid-
build a new 200mn cubic feet per day (2.07bn mounted gas processing technology for a fully
cubic metres per year) gas processing plant in integrated NGL plant at Nasiriya that would
Iraq’s Dhi Qar Province. recover 200 mmcf per day of dry gas, as well as
The contract was awarded by South Gas Co. LPG and condensate.
(SGC), owned by the Iraqi oil ministry. Baker This previous iteration of the project was
Hughes’ Turbomachinery & Process Solutions scheduled to be completed by the end of 2021.
(TPS) team will design, manufacture, deliver, Iraq is the second-worst gas flarer globally
construct and commission the plant’s equip- after Russia, burning some 18 bcm of gas in 2019,
ment. It will also supply compression equipment, according to the World Bank.
digital monitoring systems and provide other Using only 40% of this gas, Iraq could gener-
services. ate an extra 3.5 GW of power, General Electric
Once completed, the plant will process gas has estimated.
that was previously flared at Iraq’s Nassiriya and Iraq has some 18 GW of generation capacity
Gharraf oilfields. but its needs exceeded 30 GW in 2020. It relies
It will lead to a cut in CO2 emissions of over heavily on imports from Iran, for which it must
6mn tonnes per year (tpy), the service provider regularly obtain waivers on US sanctions to
said. No further details of the project were receive.
disclosed. The government has a plan to add 11 GW of
The latest award follows a contract Baker generation capacity over the next four years, but
Hughes secured from SGC in 2018 to develop the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the
solutions for flare-gas recovery at Nassiriya and resulting economic collapse has stalled plans.
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