Baghdad – WAA
The South Gas Company revealed today, Wednesday, that the percentage of completion in the engineering designs for the first phase of gas investment in the Artawi field has reached (99%) within the Total project.
The Director of the Artawi Gas Complex Department, Aqeel Ali Hussein, said in a statement received by the (INA): “The South Gas Company has contracted with the international company KBR to conduct engineering designs for the first phase of the integrated gas development project in Artawi, and there is significant progress in preparing the designs, exceeding (99.7%), as the first phase includes investing 300 million standard cubic feet of gas, and the project in its two phases invests 600 million standard cubic feet of gas.”
Hussein added, “The department’s tasks lie in following up on the reports sent by the contractor Total and KBR, the progress of the work, and making comments on matters related to the engineering designs.”
He explained that “after the final completion of the designs, we will move to the engineering details stage, which is the contracts stage, which includes more than one contract, including a contract to equip the pipes (pipeline) and another to equip the kerosene tropin generator, in addition to a contract to equip the gas compressors and other contracts within the engineering designs of the project, which are submitted by Total to the South Gas Company to provide comments on them,” noting that early work on the project will begin at the end of this year 2024.