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700 million cubic feet of gas a day wasted
Date: Monday 21/5/2012 6:54
Baghdad / Ahmed Mohammed al-Tamimi
Iraq relies on imports to finance the export of oil by a large margin in the local economy, but at the same time seeking to develop other extractive industries such as extraction of natural gas and minerals in securing new revenues to the general budget.
The Minister of Oil Abdul Karim and coffee for the "long" on the sidelines of the development of oil firms, which was held recently that "Iraq will focus on the natural gas investment in the coming years."
He stressed that the Ministry of Oil giant projects in this regard the most important project with Shell, which worth up to $ 18 billion to invest in three gas fields, and investment operations in the gas sector in the country began several years ago.
He explained that the ministry is to fill a need for the Ministry of Electricity increasing of gas to run power plants, electrical, and aspires to "export the proper amounts of it in the coming years but the goal the foundation of the ministry be exported commercially after 2017. "
He said the ministry will invest the entire amount of gas produced from the fields. The contracts with the companies contracted with a clear and said: "We will not allow to burn any amount of gas in the future," noting that the second licensing round included the development of the fields of Majnoon and Halfaya and West Qurna - Phase II and Badra, as well as the investment of gas fields in the third round of licenses.
and statistics show Ministry of Oil to the amount of associated gas produced during the month of last March by the North Oil Company Oil Company and the center of 453 million standard cubic feet and production of the Southern Oil Company and Maysan Oil Company by 1135 million standard cubic feet and the total production up to 1588 million standard cubic feet.
confirmed Ministry spokesman Assem Jihad, Oil for "term" that Iraq is working on the development and natural gas investment on more than one axis, where the first axis and the President in the third round of licenses for the rehabilitation and development of gas fields in absolute gas producing only a field crutch in Anbar province, and the field of Mansuriyah in Diyala and the field of Siba in Basra.
spokesman added that the second axis is the establishment of Basrah Gas Company by leveraging the expertise of companies sober competent in this area, such as Shell and Mitsubishi, which are now investing quantities of gas associated with the operations of the extractive oil and the estimated quantity of 2000 standard cubic feet per day and convert it into energy useful rather than burned. He noted that they Tqoman rehabilitation and the creation of private port to export gas and the development of studies of all aspects of technical and engineering fields produced to increase production and the means to export.
and explain that the oil industry is very complex and need to effort and new technologies do not own, but giants such as Shell and Mitsubishi, two of the companies that won in the licensing round allocated to the investment of gas associated with production processes, and hand him over to the Ministry.
gas, clean fuel stations for electric and a new resource for the economy.
Jihad said that the amount of gas produced within the local demand of it and to provide the growing demands by the Ministry of Electricity, which tend to expand in the preparation of power plants that operate gas because it is a source of clean energy and environmentally friendly addition to the processing of labs and factories and industries, petrochemical.
predicted export surplus for the local need of gas out of the country and significantly up to 2017, but it is also expected to export limited quantities before that date. He noted that Iraq aspires to be one of the main countries exporting gas in order to provide additional income to him next to the oil revenues began many countries interest in gas-Iraqi such as the EU and neighboring countries.
He added that there is a plan for expansion in the production of gas by introducing five patches of gas out of 12 exploration blocks in licensing round, the fourth at the end of this month to add a number new reserve of the national production of gas.
It is estimated that Iraq's stockpiles of natural gas, according to preliminary estimates at 112 trillion cubic feet of gas, but that 700 million cubic feet of it burning day and wasted due to lack of infrastructure infrastructure for the exploitation and liquidation.
and the Head of IT of oil in the University of Technology Khalid Ajami al-Rubaie's "long" The process of extracting the gas depends on the type of field is the product of it where there are gas fields is an absolute, which produces natural gas and there are common fields produce associated natural gas to extract oil.
He noted that the process of extraction, transportation and utilization techniques need to be as high as the process of converted from its gaseous to the liquid state, which are frequently used in the neighboring countries in the process of oil transport in pipelines and use it as a clean fuel.
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