The IEA, or International Energy Agency, has released its Gas Market Report, Q1-2025, whereby Iraq’s efforts to reduce gas flaring are described as “slow but steady.”
It says:
“inside the middle East the position of natural fuel within the electricity region has been growing in the beyond decade and oil-to-gas switching continued in 2024, driven by way of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia,”
adding:
“Iraq has made slow but constant progress in the direction of reducing gas flaring because the early 2010s, however in mid-2024 it still captured best sixty five% of its gross herbal fuel output while flaring away 12 bcm yearly.
“In early 2024 Iraq devoted to reducing crude burning for power generation from may additionally to December 2024 to meet OPEC+ obligations and the authorities-owned South fuel company introduced an increased gasoline utilisation plan to maximise gasoline seize volumes and decrease electricity sector oil use by way of 2028.”
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