Iraq’s Halfaya Gas Processing Mechanical Completion

PetroChina has reached mechanical completion at its 300mn cfd Gas Processing Project (GPP) at its 400,000 b/d Halfaya oil field in Iraq (see map, p4). According to a 29 September statement by Iraq’s Oil Ministry, the project “will be completed in early 2024.” The Chinese state firm’s engineering subsidiary, CPECC, is delivering the long-delayed $1.07bn project. Some GPP gas will fuel the 840MW Missan greenfield CCGT power plant inaugurated last year (MEES, 8 July 2022), whilst parallel works to connect through a pipeline to Basra are underway. Halfaya owner Missan Oil Company (MOC) is also working on expanding its loading facilities for LPG trucks to 2,000-2,500 t/d. Back in February MOC forecast that the project would be fully online by year-end (MEES, 3 February). Given that the GPP will have considerable spare capacity it could theoretically handle volumes from other nearby fields such as CNOOC’s 300,000 b/d Missan cluster (Buzurgan, Abu Gharib and Fakka).