Baghdad The Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs, Minister of Oil, Hayan Abdul-Ghani, issued directives to expedite the Nasiriyah and Al-Gharraf gas investment project.
Abdul-Ghani stressed, according to a statement by the Ministry of Oil, the importance of the gas investment project from the Nasiriyah and Al-Gharraf fields, which falls within the interest and priorities of the government and the Ministry of Oil due to its importance by adding more than 200 cubic feet (million standard cubic feet per day) to the national production of gas, and that the project represents one of the goals of the government’s. program”.
The Minister of Oil said that he “directed a ministerial delegation, which included both the Undersecretary for Extraction Affairs, Karim Hattab, the Director General of the South Gas Company, Hamza Abdel-Baqi, and the Director of the Projects and Maintenance Authority in the South Gas, “the project manager,” to find out the manufacture of devices, equipment, compressors, and towers for the project directly, and to expedite shipping them from Italy to the work site, and emphasizing adherence to the timings and schedule agreed upon with Baker Hughes International.
For his part, Undersecretary for Extraction Affairs, Karim Hattab, said that the team assigned by the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Oil met officials in the contracting company, and a presentation by the company’s president was heard on the most prominent steps of implementing the project, from which it is hoped to start production at the end of the year 2023.
Hattab added, according to the statement: “The ministerial team visited the manufacturing sites of devices and equipment that are expected to arrive in Iraq successively during the first quarter of the year 2023. The minister’s directive was conveyed to the contracting company to expedite the process of installing and operating gas investment stations at work sites.”
For his part, General Manager of the South Gas Company, Hamza Abdel-Baqi, stressed the importance of the project, which aims to invest associated gas at a rate of 200 cubic feet per day in feeding electric power stations with dry gas, and in providing large quantities of liquid gas, condensate and sulfur, as well as providing job opportunities for the people of the province, and that the project falls within the objectives of the government program.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency