New Iraq oil firm aims to triple production in Maysan
The Iraqi government said it is setting up a new oil company in the southeastern province of Maysan with the goal of more than tripling oil production in the region in the next five years.
The new Maysan Oil Company will be split from the Southern Oil Company and established as a separate state-run firm, a government statement, released late on Friday, said.
Together with the existing Northern Oil Company, Iraq will have three state-run oil firms.
Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani said this week that each Iraqi province producing at least 100,000 bpd would get its own state-run oil company to focus on developing oilfields there.
The move is designed to expand oil activities in Maysan, a large, oil-rich but poor province bordering Iran, and to achieve the best use of the province’s oil fields, the statement said.
Total oil output from Maysan province is between 100,000 and 110,000 barrels per day (bpd), the statement said.
“One of the targets of this company is to increase oil production in this province in the coming five years to reach 360,000 bpd,” it said.
Maysan province, which has six producing oil fields and five not yet in production, had been “neglected and marginalised for decades”, the statement said.
The new company will have the authority to coordinate with international companies to develop the province’s oil fields with the aim of increasing their capacity
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