VOL. XXXII

NO. 7

21-NOVEMBER-1988

IRAQ

Iraqi Gas Pipeline Starts Operations

A 48-inch gas pipeline, designed to transport associated gas supplies fromIraq's southern oilfields for domestic consumption in the central area of thecountry, has been commissioned and started operations on 14 November, MEES isinformed. The line, which will handle some 240mn cubic feet daily of gas, wasbuilt by the Soviet Union.

This project will not affect the continuity of the supply to Kuwait ofassociated gas from...