Basra Gas Company begins April 15
<p>Iraq's new joint venture with Royal Dutch Shell to capture flared gas in Basra will start formal operations next month, processing 400 million cubic feet per day.</p>
Iraqi South Oil Company engineers look toward the associated gas flares in the Zubair oil field on January 21, 2010. (ESSAM AL-SUDANI/AFP/Getty Images)
BAGHDAD - Iraq's new joint venture with Royal Dutch Shell to capture flared gas in Basra will start formal operations next month, processing 400 million cubic feet per day.
"Next month, on April 15, it will be the official opening of the Basra Gas Company," said Ali Khudhier, the director general of the state-run South Gas Company (SGC).
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