Targeted by Israel, Iraq's thermal power plants are once again powered by Iranian natural gas

Baghdad authorities announced on Saturday that power plants in Iraq are once again being powered by Iranian natural gas, following a three-day outage caused by Israeli attacks on strategic natural gas facilities in Iran.

Tehran on Wednesday condemned attacks on facilities exploiting the vast South Pars gas field (also known as North Dome), which is shared by Iran and Qatar. In response, Iraq said that imports of Iranian gas, essential for powering its power plants, had been “completely halted.” On Saturday, “Iranian natural gas supplies to Iraq have resumed,” ministry spokesman Ahmad Moussa announced, as reported by the state news agency INA. He said, among other things, that these imports currently amount to 5 million cubic meters per day.

Iraq gets electricity and natural gas from its neighbor Iran, covering a third of its energy needs. Even before the war, Iraq, a major hydrocarbon producer but with a problematic infrastructure, had suffered in recent years from the irregular flow of these Iranian gas imports. Thus, in recent months, Iraq has received only between 5 and 6 million cubic meters per day, compared with the 25 million cubic meters normally delivered during the winter months, according to the Ministry of Electricity.

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