{"id":7185,"date":"2023-08-24T11:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T11:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=7185"},"modified":"2023-08-24T11:23:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T11:23:09","slug":"iraq-to-import-gas-from-turkmenistan-to-meet-power-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/7185\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq to import gas from Turkmenistan to meet power needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p>&#8220;It was initially agreed to import quantities of gas to meet part of the needs of the electric power stations,&#8221; Iraqi Deputy Oil Minister for gas affairs Azzat Sabir was quoted as saying<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roydad Naft\u00a0&#8211; Iraq will import gas from Turkmenistan under an initial agreement reached by the countries to meet part of Iraq&#8217;s power station needs, its oil ministry said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was initially agreed to import quantities of gas to meet part of the needs of the electric power stations,&#8221; Iraqi Deputy Oil Minister for gas affairs Azzat Sabir was quoted as saying by an oil ministry statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An agreement that will detail volumes of gas to be imported from Turkmenistan should be signed before the end of this year, Sabir said, following a meeting with Turkmenistan&#8217;s gas sector officials in Turkmenistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq imports electricity and gas from Iran that total between a third and 40% of its power supply, especially crucial in sweltering summer months when temperatures can top 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) and power consumption peaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq has had trouble paying for those imports due to U.S. sanctions that only allow Iran to access funds to buy non-sanctioned goods, such as food and medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States has pushed Iraq, OPEC&#8217;s second-largest producer, to cut its reliance on Iranian gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq continues to flare some of the gas extracted alongside crude oil because it lacks the facilities to process it into fuel for local consumption or exports.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2023-08-24T11:23:09+00:00\"> 24 August 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It was initially agreed to import quantities of gas to meet part of the needs of the electric power stations,&#8221; Iraqi Deputy Oil Minister for gas affairs Azzat Sabir was quoted as saying Roydad Naft\u00a0&#8211; Iraq will import gas from Turkmenistan under an initial agreement reached by the countries to meet part of Iraq&#8217;s power [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,20,18,36,19],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-7185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-gas","category-headline","category-lastnews","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7185"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=7185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}