(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) sra April 10 - Basrah Gas Company (BGC) the three-way joint venture between Iraq South Gas Company (51%) shell (44%) and Mitsubishi (5%) has announced the start of the design phase of a new Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) Train 1 project in the Ar Ratawi area north of Basrah. The project which is to capture treat and monetise flared gas from the West Qurna-1 Zubair and Rumaila fields is expected to add approximately 500 million standard cubic feet per day (scfd) to the company's gas production capacity according to media reports. BGC awarded the front-end engineering and design contract to French engineering company Technip and China HuanQiu Contracting and Engineering. The contract covers the basic engineering design package of the NGL process units utilities and the submission of an engineering procurement and construction package. Technip's operating centre in Abu Dhabi will carry out the project which is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year. The Ar Ratawi project the first of the new greenfield associated gas processing facilities that will be used to minimise gas flaring in Iraq and includes an NGL train with nominal feed gas capacity of 530 million standard cubic feet per day. Currently Iraq produces around one billion cubic feet of gas per day. Around 70% of this is flared due to a lack of infrastructure to process the gas. The current level of flaring in southern Iraq results in around 20 million tonnes per year of carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to the annual greenhouse gas emissions of more than 3.5 million cars
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