TotalEnergies launches construction on final two major CGIP projects

Patrick Pouyanne, chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies (TTE) and Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, Qatari Minister of State for Energy Affairs, president and CEO of QatarEnergy, met on Sunday, September 14 in Baghdad with Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq, and Hayan Abulghani, Minister of Oil and Deputy Prime Minister, to announce the start of construction of the Common Seawater Supply Project and the full field development of the Ratawi oil field. These are the two last major contracts of the Gas Growth Integrated Project, led by TotalEnergies alongside its partners Basra Oil Company and QatarEnergy. With these signatures, all four parts of the GGIP are now in execution phase. The GGIP aims to sustainably develop Iraq’s natural resources to improve the country’s electricity supply while contributing to its energy independence and reducing its greenhouse gas emissions. The CSSP will be built on the coast near the town of Um Qasr. It will process and transport 5M barrels of seawater per day to the main oil fields in southern Iraq. Treated seawater will be substituted for the freshwater currently taken from the Tigris, Euphrates, and aquifers to maintain pressure in the oil wells. The project will therefore help alleviate water stress in the region and is expected to free up to 250,000 cubic meters of freshwater per day for irrigation and local agriculture needs. The Ratawi redevelopment was launched in September 2023. Phase 1 aims to increase production to 120,000 bpd and is expected to come on stream by early 2026. The launch of phase 2 will enable to increase production to 210,000 bpd starting in 2028 with no routine flaring. All 160 Mcf/d of associated gas produced every day will be fully processed thanks to the 300 Mcf/d Gas Midstream Project, whose construction began early 2025. The GMP, which will also treat previously flared gas from two other fields in southern Iraq, will deliver processed gas into the national grid where it will fuel power plants with a production capacity of approximately 1.5 GW, providing electricity to 1.5M Iraqi households. An early production facility to process 50 Mcf/d of associated gas will start early 2026 together with the Ratawi phase 1 oil production.