To reach and then sustain Iraq’s future crude oil production targets over any meaningful period, Iraq will have total water injection needs equating to around 2% of the combined average flows of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers or 6% of their combined flow during the low season, according to IEA figures. While withdrawals at these levels might look manageable, these water sources also have to continue to satisfy other end-use sectors, including the enormous agricultural sector. Informative in terms of the po ...

By far the most geopolitically important of the four projects is that which will capture associated gas. This might sound overblown to some outside the energy sector, or even within it, but because Iraq did not address this issue seriously earlier it was unable to use the gas for its own domestic power generation. This meant that for years that it has relied on neighbouring Iran to bridge that gap, which it did through increasingly large imports of gas and electricity. This reliance on Tehran for its power ...