Gas: Plans develop to raise foreign sales

December 10, 2012

In 1958, Majid Jafar’s grandfather, then the Iraqi development minister, opened two hydroelectric dams in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan. Until a joint venture between the Jafar family’s Crescent Petroleum and its affiliate Dana Gas started to produce Kurdish gas in 2008, there had been no new power-generation facility in the northern region of Iraq for 50 years

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