Iraq has awarded France’s giant TotalEnergies a new project for reduction of gas flaring in its oilfields as part of a mega hydrocarbon development deal signed in 2023, an Iraqi official has said.
The new contract involves the production of 50 mln cubic feet per day of gas from the Southern Iraqi fields under development by TotalEnergies, Iraq’s Oil Ministry Undersecretary Bassim Khudair said.
Khudair told the official Iraqi News Agency on Sunday that the projects undertaken by TotalEnergies under their USD 10 bln deal in 2023 are progressing as per schedule.
He said the gas project of two phases would produce a total 600 mln cubic feet per day and that the deal also includes the construction of a 1GW solar power plant and a seawater desalination facility in South Iraq.
