The amount of gas released by this process is relatively small.
It could be years before they begin to produce large amounts of oil and gas.
And the amount of natural gas needed would be vast.
"This is enough for buying the necessary amount of Russian gas at market prices."
A small amount of natural gas is used for domestic power generation.
With no place for the oil to go, Iraq is not pumping enough to get the amounts of gas needed.
But older plants can produce only about half as much electricity from that amount of gas.
It seemed as if the amount of gas had halved about every three days.
Wants only the right amount of gas pumped in and she'll be ready to go.
Small amounts of oil and gas remain to be produced from this field.