Contracts to increase oil and gas production revealed by oil minister

Baghdad - INA

Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs and Minister of Oil Hayan Abdul-Ghani announced today, Thursday, the organization of contracts to increase oil production and gas investment in 9 governorates while pointing to the operation of gas compressors in the fields east of Baghdad after 15 years of importing them.

Abdul-Ghani told the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "By promoting the fifth and sixth supplementary licensing rounds, the Ministry of Oil was able to refer more than 12 oil fields and oil and gas exploration patches to specialized companies, and through these contracts that were distributed over many governorates such as Dhi Qar, Basra, Muthanna, Karbala, Najaf, and Baghdad, in addition to the governorates of Wasit, Maysan, and Diyala."

He added, "There are contracts we are now organizing and signing with the companies referred to. The goal of these contracts is to increase oil production, gas investment, and increase gas production from these patches and oil fields distributed in the governorates that were mentioned."

Abdul Ghani continued, "The gas in the fields of East Baghdad was being burned in the stations, and the Ministry of Oil and the Middle Oil Company sought to invest some of the equipment available to them, and the issue concerns gas compressors and these compressors that were imported more than 15 years ago and many companies were unable to operate them, but the cadres of the Middle Oil Company were able, through their experience and capabilities, to rehabilitate these compressors, install them and operate them."

He pointed out, "I attended the inauguration of these compressors and extinguishing the gas burning in the burners and directing the gas to these compressors and pumping it towards the pipeline network to the power stations, especially a production station with a capacity of more than 15 to 20 cubic meters of gas per day, and now it is being pumped to the power stations and operated to generate electricity."