Dana Gas, the first and largest regional private-sector natural gas company in the Middle East, registered in Abu Dhabi stock change, with activities in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENASA) region, announced that it now officially owns a share in one of the blocks of an oil and gas rich offshore province in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea, one of the richest hydrocarbon sources in the world. A source in the company said that the investments will be in drill, production, transportation and refining fields. The same source added that Kurdistan production of natural gas will start in next July and that the region will exceed Egypt this year to become the company’s principal source of income. (Alsumaria Tv-network, Irak)