Houston-based service giant Baker Hughes has signed a contract with Iraq’s state-owned Dhi Qar Oil Company to increase the production of associated gas in the Nassiriya and Al-Gharraf oilfields, according to statements cited by the Iraqi News Agency.
Anwar Hadi Shiaa, director of the Associated Gas Investment Department in Dhi Qar Oil, said that the company seeks to increase the production of associated gas.
Shiaa also said that the oil company aims to increase the gas production from 20 Mcf to 200 Mcf in the Nassiriya and Al-Gharraf oilfields in the short term.
Dhi Qar Oil operates the Nasiriyah and Subba fields in the Dhi Qar province in southern Iraq, the second-largest crude oil producer in OPEC after Saudi Arabia. Nasiriyah is a large oil field located approximately 200 kilometres to the northwest of Basra. The field is estimated to hold recoverable resources of 4.4 billion barrels and was brought onstream in 2009.
Shiaa clarified that this contract will increase the production by approximately 80%, provided that the rates of crude oil production in the two oilfields rises.
Baker Hughes said that it is developing solutions for flare gas recovery at Nassiriya and Al-Gharraf oilfields using advanced modular gas processing technology developed in US and Italy.
The project will utilise the modular skid-mounted gas processing technology to build 200 million standard cubic feet per day natural gas to liquid plant, Baker Hughes said.
