A consortium of US companies Bechtel and Honeywell with Turkey’s Enka is closing in on a contract to harness associated gas from southern Iraq’s West Qurna 2 and Majnoon oilfields as part of expansion plans to reduce flaring and provide more fuel for power generation, writes Nassir Shirkhani.
The consortium has been competing against an alliance of Russia’s Lukoil and France’s Total to build processing facilities that will deliver 300 million cubic feet of gas per day to the domestic grid, helping to ease the pains of a country that has been grappling with power shortages since 2003 when a US-led invasion overthrew Saddam Hussein.
