Under the patronage of the President of Al-Mustaqbal University, Professor Hassan Shaker Magdy, a dialogue seminar entitled "The Consequences of Natural Gas Flaring and Its Impact on the Iraqi Economy" was held in cooperation with the College of Law. The seminar was delivered by Asst. Ammar Yousef Khudair, and attended by Professor Ali Mahdi Saleh, representing the Center for Continuing Education, and a select group of college professors and students. The seminar addressed the negative effects of the phenomenon of flaring gas associated with oil extraction operations, the resulting significant annual economic losses, and its environmental and health repercussions. The lecturer explained that this phenomenon represents a waste of a national resource that could have been used to generate energy or export it to support the national economy.