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Q&A: Ali Khudhier, chairman of Basra Gas Company

The leader of Iraq's efforts to capture and process natural gas in Basra, Ali Khudhier discusses the interlocking projects required to eliminate flaring.
Ali Khudair, the chairman of the Basra Gas Company and general manager of South Gas Company, stands in his office in Basra. (BEN VAN HEUVELEN/Iraq Oil Report/Metrography)

BASRA - Iraq's efforts to reduce the wasteful flaring of natural gas and increase electricity supply depend primarily on the success of one project, the Basra Gas Company (BGC).

A joint venture between the state-run South Gas Company (SGC), Royal Dutch Shell and Mitsubishi, the BGC has a broad mandate to capture all of the natural gas that is generated as a byproduct of crude oil production at three of Iraq's most prolific fields – Rumaila, West Qurna 1, and Zubair.

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