One of several decisions taken by Iraq’s cabinet in a bid to keep the lights on in the wake of dwindling imports of Iranian gas (MEES, 14 July), has seen the country’s cabinet on 11 July “approve the purchase of quantities of gas from the Khor Mor gas field in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq by [the federal] Ministry of Oil.”
The 500mn cfd field is operated by the UAE’s Crescent Petroleum and Dana Gas on behalf of the Pearl Petroleum consortium and is the largest non-associated gas field in Iraq, providing crucial gas feedstock to Kurdistan’s power plants. (CONTINUED - 247 WORDS)
