Minister of Electricity: Next summer, we will produce more than 27,000 MW

INA-  Baghdad



Electricity Minister Ziad Ali Fadhel announced on Tuesday Iraq's dependence on two sources to import gas, noting that energy production will rise next summer if imported gas stabilizes.
 
 Fadhel told the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "The quantities of imported gas reach 50 million cubic meters per day during the summer," noting that "the ministry will secure from Turkmenistan 20 million cubic meters per day and the remaining part of the 5-year Iranian gas contract."
 
He added, "We diversified the import dependence of gas to be 20 million cubic meters from Turkmenistan and about 30 to 50 million cubic meters from the Iranian side so that we have two sources instead of one," noting that "increasing our domestic production of gas, which is the third main source, will gradually reduce the quantities imported."

On the ministry's production of electricity, the minister explained that "our production during the summer reached 27.400 megawatts, and we had a shortage in the quantities of gas by about 10 million, equivalent to 1,000 megawatts," pointing out, "We will exceed this figure during the next summer after the gas stabilizes."  

It is noteworthy that the Minister of Electricity, Ziad Ali Fadel, signed last Saturday, an agreement with the Minister of State of Turkmenistan destination Babayev to supply gas to Iraq.