Things are happening at Nassiriya oil field in southern Iraq. The field, which accounts for some 4.3 billion barrels of oil reserves, has become the latest oil field to start production in recent days, albeit at a moderate pilot rate of 20,000 b/d. Nassiriya was discovered by Iraq National Oil Co (INOC) in 1975 and remained undeveloped for more than three decades after the drilling of the first exploration well…
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The Accelerated Program: A Delayed Start With Hurdles!
The interview with Mr Jabbar Al-Luaibi provides serious and damaging revelations, and could implicate top management of the Ministry of Oil-MoO on grounds of negligence, incompetence, loss of potential oil revenues and production capacity etc. The seriousness of the provided counts of events and matters calls for an independent investigation, and could very well be incorporated in the possible forthcoming questioning of the minister of oil before the Parliament. Since…
Jabbar Al-Luaibi
Former Director General of South Oil Co and oil ministry advisor Jabbar al-Luaibi discusses in an interview with Ruba Husari in Dubai May 16, 2009 the state of the oil fields in southern Iraq and the reasons behind the recent loss in production capacity at Iraq’s major producing oil fields. Q: You brought the oil sector back from the ashes in 2003 and ramped up production till you achieved…
Head Named for New Oil Firm in Southern Iraq
11 September 2008 Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani has named Ali Muarij, a petroleum engineer from southern Iraq, director-general of Missan Oil Co. (MOC), the first regional operating company to be set up since Iraq National Oil Co. was dismantled in 1987, Iraqi sources told International Oil Daily from Baghdad Wednesday. The cabinet in June approved the creation of MOC to operate all oil fields in Missan province in southern…