PARLIAMENTARY OIL COMMITTEE REVEALS URGENT SOLUTIONS FOR IRANIAN GAS
The Parliamentary Oil and Gas Committee revealed, on Sunday, the Iraqi government’s intention to import Gulf gas instead of Iranian gas after the recent US sanctions, announcing a project that is being worked on at high speed in Basra, the far south of the country.
The spokesman for the committee, Ali Shaddad, said, “The problem with the Ministry of Electricity is that it has established stations in the Iraqi provinces that depend on gas only, while the stations in Basra are complex and operate on gas, crude oil, and black oil, and this is what contributed to the stability of the electrical system in the province.”
He explained that “the Prime Minister personally follows up on the completion of the gas pipeline project from the floating platform in Basra on a daily basis,” indicating that “the Ministry of Oil began working on it about thirty days ago and it will be completed at high speed within 120 days.”
He added that “the completion rate has exceeded 30% so far,” stressing that “the project will contribute to transporting Gulf gas in quantities of up to 200 cubic meters.”
(How much gas did Iraq say it needed to power its full grid? Didn’t they tell us? I quote from the article above- “Iraq currently produces 27,000 megawatts of electricity through stations, most of which operate on gas, but the production capacity sometimes drops to 17,000 megawatts. This amount, at its maximum, does not meet the country’s electricity needs, as Iraq needs to increase production to reach 40,000 megawatts in order to ensure the provision of energy around the clock”
Since we know that 1 megawatt-hour would require about 198 cubic meters. So, you can see that the importing Gulf gas would not be nearly enough to power the entire country of Iraq.)
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