Baghdad – IA
Deputy Prime Minister for Power Affairs and Oil Minister Hayan Abdul Ghani confirmed that the opening of the 2 gasoline processing tasks within the Halfaya discipline in Maysan and the Azmara unit mission in Basra by Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani, in the present day, Saturday, falls throughout the authorities’s plans to extend gasoline manufacturing and cease burning gasoline, and as he defined Present tasks to satisfy the overall home want for the 2 supplies confirmed that Iraq has achieved self-sufficiency in gasoline oil and kerosene producers, pointing on the similar time to a rise within the manufacturing of petroleum derivatives at a fee of 360 thousand barrels per day.
Abdul-Ghani instructed Iraqi Information, adopted by the (INA): “The federal government, for the reason that starting of its formation, took it upon itself to finish the file of burning gasoline and changing it into productive power for a lot of makes use of, and all fields by which gasoline is burned have already been contracted for funding, with the goal of ending this file by the top of the 12 months.” 2028 or the start of 2029.”
He added, “Among the many contracts signed is a contract with the French firm Whole and Qatar Gasoline Firm. The contract is continuing at a transparent tempo and contains investing gasoline from 5 oil fields: Majnoon, West Qurna 2, Al-Lhais, Tuba and Artawi throughout two phases: the primary with a capability of 300 mqmq in the course of the first three years and the second additionally with 300 mqmq and reaching a complete manufacturing of 600 mqmq inside 5 years.”
He continued, “There are additionally promising tasks in Dhi Qar Governorate, together with a contract signed with the American firm Baker Hughes to take a position gasoline from the Nasiriyah and Al-Gharraf fields with a capability of 200 mqmq, and there’s a contract lately signed with the Halfaya Firm to take a position gasoline from the Nahr Bin Omar discipline with a capability of 150 mqmq, which will be elevated.” To 300 mqmq, and there’s additionally a gasoline processing mission within the Halfaya discipline, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa al-Sudani in the present day, with a design capability of as much as 300 mqmq.
Relating to the oil derivatives file, Abdul Ghani defined, “The Ministry took clear steps within the mission to supply the native want for derivatives, and the Ministry was capable of improve the speed of refining capability by 360 thousand barrels per day via the Karbala refinery with a capability of 140 thousand barrels, along with the manufacturing of the North Refinery in Baiji, with a capability of 150,000 barrels per day, in addition to the manufacturing of the fourth unit within the South Refineries Firm, with a capability of 70,000 barrels.”
Abdul-Ghani introduced that Iraq has achieved self-sufficiency in producing gasoline oil and kerosene (white oil), noting that “sufficiency has not solely been achieved, however we now have portions of as much as a million and 200 thousand barrels of gasoline ready for export, and that is occurring for the primary time, and the ministry is at present specializing in To attain self-sufficiency in gasoline and cease its import, which is what the federal government is at present specializing in, and the opening of the Azmara unit in the present day by the Prime Minister in Basra, which can add 1,300 cubic meters of gasoline.”