Al-Sudani directs updating the national energy strategy

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04/29/2024
Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani directed the updating of the National Energy Strategy.
The Prime Minister’s Media Office stated in a statement: “Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani chaired a meeting devoted to discussing the plans of the Ministry of Electricity and the National Energy Strategy file, in the presence of the Ministers of Electricity and Oil.”
Al-Sudani directed, “to form a specialized team from the ministries of planning, electricity, oil, and finance, and a body of advisors, to work on an urgent update of the integrated national energy strategy, on the basis of reviewing the energy file and what Iraq needs at the level of productive energy and fuel energy, and at the same time ensuring the sustainability of financing energy projects.” To prevent it from delaying or stopping.”
He stressed, “It is necessary to take into account, in updating the strategy, the integration of energy projects with each other, to ensure that gas security sources are available to operate gas electricity stations once they are completed, and that gas transmission pipelines are available once its production from oil fields is completed, and that electrical stations that benefit from it are available.”
He stressed “the importance of the strategy taking into account the path that the state is supposed to take to reduce the burdens of the energy file on state funds,” directing “the need for the specialized team to submit its report updating the strategy after consultation with the relevant ministries and with the consultant to the Ministry of Planning, KBR Company.”
The statement continued: The meeting witnessed a discussion of resolving the pipelines transporting gas produced from gas stations, especially since within six months gas will be produced in West Qurna, which requires work on introducing this carrier pipeline into the national gas transportation network.
He pointed out that “the meeting discussed the issue of electricity collection, and the follow-up of the implemented directives issued by previous meetings in this regard, and witnessed the presence of a number of undersecretaries and general directors in the ministries of electricity, oil, finance, and planning, as well as a number of advisors to the Prime Minister.”[/size]
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