Baghdad – WAA
The Southern Gas Company announced today, Wednesday, the entry into force of the integrated gas development project in the Artawi field, while indicating that the integrated gas development in the Artawi field is considered a great opportunity to invest local hands in various specializations.
The Deputy Director of the Artawi Department, Kazem Wadi, said in a statement received by the (INA): “The young cadres, after the integrated gas development project in the Artawi field enters into force, will work with companies that operate according to the global system, and thus the next generations will work and continue within the scope of global systems in the field of the oil and gas sector.”
Wadi added, “The cooperation between the South Gas Company and Total, the operator of the field, is carried out through multiple committees, and there is cooperation described as great by the federal government and the Ministry of Oil, in addition to the South Gas Company, in facilitating the tasks of the joint cooperation process to implement the project according to the approved plans and studies.” He explained that “these tasks are represented by the procedures for expropriating the land linked to several departments, the procedures for which are carried out in a legal and fundamental manner according to the controls, which have reached advanced stages with regard to the expropriation of the lands on which the gas plants and other complementary facilities are built.”
He stated that “work is underway to develop appropriate solutions regarding the intersection with companies, represented by the pipelines extending from the northern and southern Rumaila to the ports for export and other purposes, in addition to linking the dry gas pipelines with the transport network, as well as the pipelines transporting cooking gas and others for transporting condensates,” noting that “the committees are continuing their work regarding the stage of land acquisition and obtaining approvals from the parties through which these pipelines pass.”
He pointed out that “after completing all procedures, the land will be prepared to receive the project’s equipment,” expressing his hope that “there will be work on the ground by next October.”