Shafaq News/ Iraq's oil ministry is committed to optimizing investments in associated gas in a bid to exploit all the available amounts, the Director-General of the South Gas Company (SGC), Hamza Abdul-Baqi, said on Wednesday.

In a press release he issued earlier today, Abdul-Baqi said that the joint administration with the Basra Gas Company decided to increase the investment volume in al-Zubair field from 35 to 147 MMSCFD.

It is noteworthy that the Basra Gas Company has installed plants to condense the associated gas in four fields in southern Iraq.