Iraq’s Basrah Gas Company (BGC) has awarded a $35m gas compressor contract to the Malaysia-listed Wah Seong Corporation.

The contact is for the design and sale of gas compressor packages, and associated plant and site facilities.

In a statement filed with stock exchange Bursa Malaysia, Wah Seong said work on the contract would start in March and end by the end of 2018.

“The activities undertaken … include engineering, detail design, procurement and packaging of the process equipment,” the company said in the filing.

Wah Seong has previously supplied similar packages for BGC.

BGC was established in May 2013 as a 25-year incorporated joint venture between state-owned South Gas Company, Anglo-Dutch Shell and Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation.

BGC is one of the largest gas production companies in Iraq and the largest gas-flaring reduction project.

Under current plans, BGC will capture and process all the gas from Iraq’s Rumailah, West Qurna 1, and Zubair fields.

At the end of 2017 the company was processing 900 million cubic feet a day (mmscf/d) of associated gas.