Wasit Province – About 2,000 Chinese workers are about to descend on Al-Ahdab oil field next month to start work on the construction of the central production facility, engineer Ahmad Abdul Redha, the chief of Al-Ahdab section at North Oil Co (NOC) tells me during a tour of the fortress camp that CNPC’s subsidiary, Al-Waha Petroleum, built just 15 km to the west of Kut. With five rigs on the…
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Iraq Watch – Confused Priorities
26 September 2008 A second bid round for Iraq’s upstream sector, currently being prepared by the oil ministry, promises to transform the country’s oil industry. If all goes to plan, a second set of oil and gas fields would be awarded by the end of next year, hard on the heels of the first eight fields announced this summer — and the Iraqi oil industry will be bustling. That’s good…