{"id":253968,"date":"2026-08-18T07:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/253968\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T07:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:48:15","slug":"iraq-opens-new-gas-processing-plant-at-faihaa-oil-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/253968\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq opens new gas processing plant at Faihaa oil field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) \u2013 Iraqi Oil Minister Basim Khudair inaugurated on Friday a new central gas processing plant at the Faihaa oil field in the southern province of Basra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The initiative is an important stage in Iraq\u2019s overall effort to prevent gas flaring, achieve gas self-sufficiency, and provide fuel for power plants to support the country\u2019s electricity grid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The facility has a daily processing capacity of 130 million standard cubic feet and is expected to raise Iraqi gas output by 92 million standard cubic feet per day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new gas processing plant will produce 9,800 barrels of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) per day (approximately 840 tons).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project aims to capture associated gas that was previously wasted through flaring. It will convert this byproduct into clean energy to alleviate local power shortages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Located about 20 kilometers north of Basra near the Iranian border, the Faihaa oil field is operated by Kuwait Energy Basra, a division of Hong Kong-listed United Energy Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iraq seeks to significantly reduce its dependency on imported gas, with the ultimate objective of completely eliminating gas flaring nationally by 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) \u2013 Iraqi Oil Minister Basim Khudair inaugurated on Friday a new central gas processing plant at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[58627,2032,897,32934,70209,94,70210,10688,6321,14208,70211,70212],"class_list":["post-253968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-associated-gas","tag-electricity","tag-gas","tag-gas-flaring","tag-imported-gas","tag-iraq","tag-kuwait-energy-basra","tag-liquefied-petroleum-gas","tag-lpg","tag-power-plants","tag-power-shortages","tag-united-energy-group"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117115414936831907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}