IRAQ
 
Gas, Infrastructure Challenges Loom Larger For Baghdad
 
Delays and ongoing challenges to the formation of the $17.2bn Shell-led Basra Gas Company (BGC) are threatening vital incremental gas supply to new Iraqi power stations. Iraqi Oil Minister, ‘Abd al-Karim Laibi on 13 February called in foreign operators of Basra province oil fields, whose associated gas output is to supply BGC, in a bid to avert the political fall-out from another summer of 55°C...