Iraqi state firm Dhi Qar Oil Company (DQOC) has started “trial operations” at a 71MW gas-fired power plant at the Petronas-operated 250,000 b/d capacity Gharaf oil field, according to a 19 August statement by Iraq’s Oil Ministry. The plant will be fed by the field’s associated gas output to help provide electricity for operations there. It is unclear whether the raw gas provided is fully processed, as work is still ongoing on a nearby 200mn cfd gas processing plant which Baker Hughes and GE plan to complete in 2H 2024 (MEES, 11 August). Gharaf nevertheless does have gas dehydration capacity (MEES, 28 April). Iraq is facing lengthy blackouts this summer and Gharaf has recently been supplying 24,000 b/d of crude oil to the Zubaidiya oil-fired power plant in nearby Wasit province to help alleviate a system-wide generation deficit due to gas feedstock shortages at gas-fired power plants (MEES, 25 August).