Name of the Project
Basrah natural gas liquids (BNGL) facility.

Location
The project is located in Basrah, in southern Iraq.

Project Owner/s
Basrah Gas Company (BGC) is an incorporated joint venture between South Gas Company (51%), Royal Dutch Shell (44%) and Mitsubishi (5%).

Project Description
The project entails the design and installation of a new gas processing plant, part of a broader expansion plan to increase BGC’s raw gas processing capacity from one-billion standard cubic feet a day of gas to 1.4-billion standard cubic feet a day of gas by 2024.

BNGL will treat the associated gas to meet domestic gas specifications and supply gas to the regional gas grid.

Natural gas liquids (NGLs), comprising liquid petroleum gas (LPG) and condensate, will be separated from the gas at the BNGL facility and sent to the LPG separation processes at BGC’s Khor Al Zubair (KAZ) facility.

The BNGL process will also remove hydrogen sulphide from the gas producing a biological sulphur product intended to be used for the domestic Iraqi market.

The BNGL project scope comprises:

• two NGL trains, each with a capacity of 200-million standard cubic feet a day;
• works in the immediate vicinity of the process trains, including power and water supply,
• four pipelines and their tie-ins, including a 13.7 km feed gas pipeline from BGC’s North Rumaila NGL plant, an 80 km broadcut export to the BGC KAZ facility, a 10.2 km dry gas pipeline to connect to the Iraqi gas grid, and a 17 km water supply pipeline from the Rumaila Operating Organization’s Al Nukhail water pumpstation.

The proposed project will enable BGC to avoid the emission of 9.5-million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents a year from entering the atmosphere by reducing upstream gas flaring.

Potential Job Creation
During construction, BNGL will employ up to 1 000 workers through BGC and its contractors; no less than 50% of BNGL construction personnel will be Iraqi nationals.

Capital Expenditure
The project is estimated at $1-billion.

Planned Start/End Date
Not stated.

Latest Developments
None stated.

Key Contracts and Suppliers
None stated.

On Budget and on Time?
Not stated.

Contact Details for Project Information
BGC, email communications@basrahgas.com.