The Ministry of Oil, on Wednesday, the high production of liquid gas in the south of the country to the rate of 4,814 thousand tons per day. 

The spokesman of the ministry Assem Jihad, in a statement received by Alsumaria News, a copy of it, "The production of liquid gas to the Basrah Gas Company in the south of the country rose to unprecedented levels, where it exceeded the rate of 4,814 thousand tons per day," considering it as "an important step To strengthen the national production of liquid gas fuel to achieve self-sufficiency on the one hand, and to strengthen foreign exports on the other, and to achieve the highest financial return. "




"The deputy prime minister for energy, Oil Minister Thamer Abbas al-Ghadhban, paid the price of the efforts of the employees of the Gas Company in Basra," Jihad said. He called on them to "move ahead with implementing the ministry's plans to optimize the associated gas and convert the burned energy into productive and useful energy, . 

According to preliminary estimates of the Ministry of Oil that Iraq has a reserve estimated at 132 trillion cubic feet of gas, and since about 70% of Iraqi gas is a gas associated with the extraction of oil to be treated, and Iraq ranks 11th among the world's richest natural gas after Russia, Iran and Qatar Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, America, Nigeria, Venezuela and Algeria.