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South gas chief retires

Ali Khudair, the head of South Gas Company and chairman of Basra Gas Company, had planned to serve past the official retirement age, but now he is stepping down.
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 - Ali Hussein Khudair will be retiring from the South Gas Company (SGC), having reached the state-mandated retirement age of Oil Ministry employees.

The 63-year-old Khudair has played a key role in the Basra Gas Company (BGC), which is a joint venture between SGC (51 percent), Royal Dutch Shell (44 percent) and Mitsubishi (5 percent) tasked with capturing the massive amount of associated gas flared at the Zubair, Rumaila and West Qurna 1 oil fields in Basra. Khudair is chairman of BGC.

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