Halfaya Adds New Horizons

Halfaya oil field in Missan province is set to become the second green field to add significant production, after Ahdab, since Iraq’s oil ministry started awarding service contracts to international oil companies. A ceremony to celebrate the first commercial production from Halfaya field at a rate of 70,000 barrels per day, is set for July, the director general of Missan Oil Co (MOC) Ali Muarij tells me. With this new…

Nihad Mousa

Nihad Mousa, is the Director General of State Co for Oil Projects (Scop). She is the first Iraqi woman to hold the position of director general in the Iraqi oil ministry’s companies. In this interview with Ruba Husari in Baghdad, she spells out Scop’s role in the unprecedented expansion of the oil infrastructure that will cater for the increase in crude oil output over the next few years. Q: Scop…