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Basra Oil Company (BOC) (Arabic: شركة نفط البصرة), formerly Iraqi South Oil Company, [1] is a national Iraqi company responsible for the oil in the south of Iraq. It is situated in Basra. BOC is one of the major fundamental formations of the Iraq National Oil Company (INOC). It was the first nucleus and the basis of national direct ...
Iraq is a country in Western Asia, bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the southwest, and Syria to the west. Iraq's economy is dominated by the oil sector, which as 2021, provides about 92% of foreign exchange earnings. [ 1 ]
The Ministry of Oil (Arabic: وزارة النفط) is the cabinet-level ministry of the Iraqi government responsible for managing and developing the natural resources (oil and gas) in Iraq. The Minister of Oil since October 2022 is Hayyan Abdul Ghani.
According to the Oil and Gas Journal, Iraq's proven natural gas reserves are 112 trillion cubic feet (Tcf), the tenth largest in the world. An estimated 70 percent of these lie in Basra governorate in the south of Iraq. Probable Iraqi reserves have been estimated at 275–300 Tcf, and work is currently underway by several IOCs and independents ...
The Rumaila oil field is a super-giant oil field [1] located in southern Iraq, approximately 50km to the south west of Basra City. [2] Discovered in 1953 by the Basrah Petroleum Company (BPC), an associate company of the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), [3] [4] [5] the field is estimated to contain 17 billion barrels, which accounts for 12% of Iraq's oil reserves, estimated at 143 billion barrels.
Following the spin-off from South Oil in 2008, Missan initiated an international consortium to develop the Zubair oil field.As part of a series of international licensing rounds, the 20-year deal was finalized in 2010, with companies Eni (32.81%), Occidental Petroleum (23.44%) and Korea Gas Corporation (18.75%) holding stakes in the venture.
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In early 2018 Iraq also signed a deal with a U.S. company to further develop oil and gas fields in the south. The deal was described as an "important step" by Alluaibi. [ 22 ]