Gazprom Neft PJSC said a gas plant at Badra field in eastern Iraq is undergoing performance testing and is expected to go into commercial production in the fourth quarter. It will be able to process 1.6 billion cu m/year.
The company has begun trial shipments of liquefied petroleum gas to Iraq’s state-owned Gas Filling Co. Gas also is being sent to the Az-Zubaydiyah electric power station 100 km away.
Gazprom Neft said the gas production complex will greatly increase electricity production in Iraq.
Commercial gas will be used as fuel at five generators at the Badra gas-turbine power plant, which has a total planned capacity of 123.5 Mw.
The gas plant project also includes construction of a granulated sulfur production facility.