The Middle East’s largest private sector natural gas company Dana Gas and its partner, Crescent Petroleum, reported record sales of gas production in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), reaching 452 million cubic feet of gas per day (MMscf/d) by the end of 2021.
The figure marks a 50 percent gas production growth in KRI from 305 MMscf/d in 2018, according to the official statement.
Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum jointly operate the Khor Mor and Chemchemal gas fields on behalf of the Pearl Petroleum consortium, supplying the gas which enables electricity generation in the KRI, and also producing close to 16,000 barrels of condensate and 1,000 tonnes of LPG per day.
“The achievement of this production milestone underscores the progress we continue to make at Khor Mor to meet the rapidly growing demand for natural gas in the KRI. Despite the challenges the whole world has faced over the past two years, we are proud to have continued delivering uninterrupted supply of clean-burning natural gas to support the KRI economy and enable a healthy recovery,” said Majid Jafar, CEO of Crescent Petroleum and board managing director of Dana Gas.
The production milestone is the culmination of numerous process improvements at the Khor Mor gas plant, including a bypass project completed in 2020 as well as a debottlenecking programme earlier in 2018.
“Our continued investments since 2018, notably the Khor Mor de-bottlenecking and bypass projects, have allowed us to deliver reliable supplies of clean energy to support the KRI economy and its people, with enhanced economic and environmental benefits which will increase as we further grow production,” said Patrick Allman-Ward, CEO of Dana Gas.
The process improvements will be reinforced by the $630 million KM250 expansion project at the plant, which is currently under implementation and will increase total capacity by an additional 55 percent to 700 MMscf/d by April 2023.
Upon the project’s completion, the partners also plan a further KM500 train that would raise production to almost 1 billion cubic feet per day, in which Jafar added: “Our major expansion plans at the Khor Mor and Chemchemal fields to target 1 billion cubic feet per day in the coming few years will enable improved services across the region for years to come.”
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