Iraq is among the world's largest gas flaring countries, burning an estimated 17 billion cubic meters of associated gas each year (World Bank estimates, approximate), while the country still imports gas and fuel for power stations and suffers summer electricity shortages. Flaring wastes a valuable resource and releases CO₂, methane and black carbon close to populated areas, affecting both climate and public health. Capturing this gas and treating it to remove water, sulfur compounds and heavy hydrocarbons allows it to be used as fuel for power plants, as LPG and condensate, or as feedstock for petrochemicals. This can improve electricity supply, create new revenue and reduce emissions at the same time. Projects such as the Basrah Gas Company and newer gas-capture programs in the south show that the technology is proven, and the main challenges are investment, pipelines, processing capacity and project management. For chemical and energy engineering students, flare recovery is a clear example of how process design, economics and environmental protection meet in one real national problem, and it offers many topics for graduation projects. Al-Mustaqbal University – The First Private University in Iraq