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Q&A: Ali Salman Majeed, deputy director general of South Gas Company

A top gas official discusses developments with TotalEnergies, Basra Gas Company, and other projects aiming to end flaring and produce enough products to expand exports.
Engineer Ali Salman Majeed, the First Deputy Director General and Director of the Production Commission at Iraq's state-run South Gas Company, at his office in Basra in October 2024. (ALI AL-AQILY/Iraq Oil Report)

BASRA - The South Gas Company (SGC) is involved in many of Iraq’s major hydrocarbon priorities: reducing gas flaring, turning that wasted gas into products for local consumption, and enabling the excess to be exported to add to the country’s revenues.

SGC is overseeing several projects designed to capture associated gas that is produced along with crude oil at several southern oil fields, including the gas component of the TotalEnergies-led Gas Growth Integrated Project; and SGC is also the majority partner in the Basra Gas Company consortium, along with Royal Dutch Shell and Mitsubishi.

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