By far the most geopolitically important of the four projects is that which will capture associated gas. This might sound overblown to some outside the energy sector, or even within it, but because Iraq did not address this issue seriously earlier it was unable to use the gas for its own domestic power generation. This meant that for years that it has relied on neighbouring Iran to bridge that gap, which it did through increasingly large imports of gas and electricity. This reliance on Tehran for its power ...