Baghdad – IA
The Ministry of Oil announced today, Saturday, that the rate of national gas investment has risen to more than (1,916) cubic meters per day.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Oil for Gas Affairs, Izzat Saber, said in a statement received by the (INA): “The Ministry is keen to accelerate the implementation of gas investment projects, stop burning it, and work to transform it into useful energy that supplies electrical power stations and all industries related to it, in line with The government program and the directives of Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani and the Minister of Oil.”
He added, “The gas investment sector is witnessing growth and an increase in the amounts of associated gas investment
The amount of gas invested amounted to more than (1916) cubic meters per day, which constitutes more than (61%) of the amount of gas produced, which amounts to (
3120 (million standard cubic feet per day).
Saber pointed out, “Equipping electric power generation stations, industrial facilities, and others with dry gas in a quantity of (1,450) cubic meters per day, while the quantity of national production of liquid gas reached (6,675) tons per day.”
The Undersecretary expected “new quantities to be added to the national production rate this year, after the completion of a number of promising projects in southern Iraq.”