GE launches operations at new 500MW power plant in Iraq
BAGHDAD, 8 hours, 29 minutes ago GE Gas Power has announced the opening of the Samawa Power Plant in the Iraqi governorate of Al Muthanna. For the first phase of the project, four GE 9E gas turbines have been installed and commissioned at the plant, thus helping the facility to generate up to 500 MW in simple cycle operations. GE Gas Power had led the construction of the Samawa Power Plant, which is the first new utility scale power facility to be built in the governorate since 1975. It was inaugurated by Prime Minister of Iraq Mustafa Al Kadhimi.
US extends Iraq s sanctions waiver for 4 months
A mask-clad General Electric employee at Power Plant near the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah on 16 June 2020 [HUSSEIN FALEH/AFP/Getty Images] April 1, 2021 at 4:00 am
The US has granted Iraq the maximum extension to a sanctions waiver allowing it to import gas from Iran for four months, an Iraqi official revealed on Wednesday.
The unnamed Iraqi official told
AFP that the new exemption granted by the Biden administration allows Iraq to import electricity and gas from its eastern neighbour from early April until early August. The exemption period is the most prolonged period granted to Baghdad so far and the maximum period allowed under US law.
Iranian-backed forces are exerting pressure on Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi to stop him linking Baghdad s electricity grid with that of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) grid, a local of.
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Iraqi Kurdistan Finally Moves To Develop Massive Gas Resources By Simon Watkins - Dec 29, 2020, 6:00 PM CST
In tandem with Iraq’s reiterated target for crude oil production of 7 million barrels per day (bpd) by 2025, from the previous 5 mbpd, Baghdad has also stated that it will stop flaring gas by the same point (and to halt importing fuel from Iran by 2025 as well). These moves would be in line with Iraq’s endorsement in May 2017 of the United Nations and World Bank ‘Zero Routine Flaring’ initiative aimed at ending this type of routine flaring by 2030 and with the commitments made by Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, during his recent visit to Washington to reduce Baghdad’s dependence on Tehran. Since making the commitment to reducing gas flaring nearly three years ago, little of real significance has yet been achieved in the south of the country but there is some reason for optimism founded on economic necessity and on recent progress made