IDC’s Success Story

Iraq Drilling Co (IDC) is back in force and seems on the way to turn itself into a success story by teaming up with the big ones. After the short setback following the failed joint venture with Mesopotamia Petroleum, it has finally found the magic formula to play the leading role in the gigantic drilling effort that will take place across the Iraqi oil fields over the next few years.

In the first drilling tender launched earlier this year for drilling in Rumaila oil field, IDC bid jointly with Schlumberger, the world’s largest oilfield services provider and together they won a contract to drill 21 new wells and carry out workover jobs on 23 wells. IDC will supply three of its…

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At Iraq’s Big Kirkuk Field, Oil Flows but Damage Still a Problem

2 May 2003

Crude oil production from Iraq’s northern Kirkuk oil complex has been ramped up to 60,000 barrels per day this week and is likely to rise to at least 130,000 b/d once the first crude oil unit at the Baiji refinery becomes operational again, an official of North Oil Co. (NOC) said Thursday.

“We started initial production at 20,000 b/d on Apr. 24 and are currently producing 60,000 b/d using one degassing station at the Baba dome,” NOC’s director of operations, Mohammad Hussein, told International Oil Daily in Kirkuk Thursday.

Baba, one of three such domes in the giant Kirkuk oil field, was producing about 400,000 b/d before the war, processed at five gas-oil separation stations: Jabal Bur, Shurao, Baba, Hanjira,…

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