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SHARJAH, March 3 Asia Pulse - Dana Gas, the Middle East's first and largest regional private sector natural gas company, has announced that its project in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to supply, process and transport natural gas to fuel urgently needed local electricity generation is progressing at a rapid pace, with over 70 per cent overall project completion to date.
The project, following service agreements signed in April 2007 with the Kurdistan Regional Government and carried out in partnership with Crescent Petroleum, has completed the engineering, procurement and manufacturing phases, and is now in the construction stage, using Iraqi contractors to maximise local content and economic benefit, the company said Sunday in a press release.
The entire project is on track for first gas supply of 150 million cubic feet of gas per day by middle of this year, rising to 300 million cubic feet by early 2009.
The gas will supply new power plants under construction in Erbil and Sulymaniya, to provide 1,250 MW of electricity generation, for the benefit of over 4 million Iraqi citizens in the Kurdistan Region and the rest of Iraq.
Hamid Jafar, Executive Chairman of Dana Gas and Chairman of the Board of Crescent Petroleum, said the project, ...