Q&A: South Gas Company chief Ali Khudair
The head of Iraq’s anti-flaring efforts discusses progress – and delays – on the long road to capitalizing on the country's natural gas wealth.
Ali Khudair, the chairman of the Basra Gas Company and general manager of South Gas Company, stands in his office in Basra. (BEN VAN HEUVELEN/Iraq Oil Report/Metrography)
BASRA - Iraq is struggling to capitalize on its plentiful natural gas production, most of which is wastefully burned atop giant flares because there is not adequate infrastructure to process it.
The Oil Ministry sought to solve this problem largely through the creation of the Basra Gas Company (BGC), a consortium formed in 2011 by the state-run South Gas Company (SGC), Royal Dutch Shell, and Mitsubishi. BGC is supposed to take the "associated gas" that is generated as a byproduct of crude production at three of Iraq's largest oil fields, and process it so that it can help fuel power plants and industry.
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