Q&A: Kadhim Matroud, BOC director for Siba gas field
Output is rising at Iraq's only commercially producing dry gas field, but reserves estimates have been cut in half.
Kadhim Matroud of the Basra Oil Company. (ALI AL-AQILY/Iraq Oil Report)
BASRA - The Siba field in Basra is one notable success in Iraq's otherwise halting quest to develop its natural gas resources.
Kuwait Energy signed a contract for the field in 2011 and started production in 2018, weeks before the company was acquired by China's United Energy Group (UEG), which now operates the field. Now, production has risen from an initial target of 25 million standard cubic feet per day (scf/d) to 46 million scf/d.
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