KBR has won a detailed engineering design contract for gas-capture infrastructure at Iraq’s West Qurna-1 oil field, the company announced on 3 November.
AKT Oil Services Company awarded the work for Gas Compressor Station 6 within the West Qurna-1 Low-Pressure Gas Capture Project. AKT is delivering the project under its engineering, procurement and construction contract with Basrah Gas Company.
KBR’s scope is multi-discipline detailed design. The company describes the project as part of Basrah Gas Company’s wider programme to expand gas capture and reduce flaring in southern Iraq.
The planned facilities would collect associated gas that is currently flared and bring it into the domestic energy system. That is the project’s intended outcome; the design award is not confirmation that capture equipment has been commissioned or that emissions reductions have already been achieved.
The announcement does not disclose the contract value, gas-handling capacity, completion date or a project-specific recruitment total. The award nevertheless identifies a defined engineering package within Iraq’s programme to use more of the gas produced alongside oil.
Source: KBR announcement, 3 November 2026.
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Image credit: Illustrative company file photograph: KBR offices on Clinton Drive, Houston, formerly Brown & Root headquarters; July 2009 file image. This does not show West Qurna-1 or the gas-capture works in Iraq. WhisperToMe / Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Resized and compressed. Original photograph and public-domain dedication.
