Iraq’s Ministry of Oil has met to discuss the development of 16 new LNG tanks, with the aim of increasing storage capacities and developing the gas sector in Iraq. The meeting was chaired by Dr Ezzat Saber Ismail, undersecretary of the Ministry of Oil for Gas Affairs, with the director general of the General Company for Gas Filling and Services, the assistant director general of the Studies Department, and Ministry officials and specialists in attendance.
Discussions in the meeting stressed the importance of increasing LNG storage capacity in the country, with meeting notes highlighting that ‘the project comes within the framework of strengthening strategic storage and achieving high flexibility in storage and processing operations, in order to support the stability of supplies and meet the needs of citizens, and is considered one of the strategic projects within the government’s programme to develop the infrastructure of the gas sector.’
Dr Ismail called for the ‘expedition of implementation requirements completion’ the ‘enhanced coordination between the General Company for Gas Bottling and Services, the Oil Projects Company and the executing companies’ and ‘the intensification of technical and administrative efforts to overcome obstacles and accelerate the pace of completion’.
Next steps, implementation requirements, and challenges and solutions were also discussed within the meeting.
