Crescent, Dana to raise Kurdistan gas production

22/03/2018 07:54 AST

Pearl Petroluem, a consortium led by Crescent Petroluem and Dana Gas, on Wednesday said that it has signed a 10-year gas sales agreement with the Kurdistan regional government.

Under the agreement, it plans to supply and sell additional quantities of gas that it plans to begin producing later this year in order to boost much-needed local domestic electricity generation, the company said in a statement posted on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange's website.

This will enable an increase in delivered gas production from the Khor Mor Field by an anticipated 80 million cubic feet of sales gas per day before the end of 2018, on top of the current level of 305 million cubic feet per day.

All contractual conditions have since been satisfied and consequently the project work has now commenced, the statement added. Total investment to date exceeds $1.3 billion (Dh4.77 billion), with total cumulative production over 228 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe), which has resulted in billions of dollars of fuel cost savings and economic benefits for the Kurdistan Region and Iraq as a whole.

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