And an official statement quotes Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs and Minister of Petroleum, Hayan Abdul-Ghani, saying that transport works from the field are carried out by railways, with a quantity of 30,000 barrels per day. to oil export ports in the Gulf, in addition to supplying the Qayyarah oil refinery with 3,000 barrels per day. .
The Minister added, “This step will provide good financial revenue for the public treasury, in addition to the operation of the Qayyarah refinery, in addition to our efforts to support the national and local carrier in the private and public, in particular the Iraqi Oil Tankers Company. , one of the formations of the Ministry of Petroleum, and the General Company of Iraqi Railways.”
For his part, the Undersecretary for Extractive Affairs, Bassem Muhammad Khudair, said, “The ministry was keen to expedite the resumption of production operations at the Qayyarah oilfield, and work to overcome and resolve the technical and contractors”, pointing out “the importance of stabilizing and supporting the production of the field and working to increase it. » According to development plans and programs.
General Manager of the Iraqi Oil Tanker Company, Ali Qais, said: “His company will carry out the process of transporting the crude oil from the export ports to the anchorage area in the territorial waters, to be loaded in oil companies contracting with the Iraqi Oil Marketing Company, SOMO.”
The General Manager of the North Oil Company, Berkan Hassan Abdullah, confirmed that “the national effort has contributed, together with the foreign entrepreneur, to the resumption of the production and export process, and is working to achieve high throughput in the process of movement and transportation of crude oil”, stressing that “the company seeks to gradually increase production according to the requirements of the production and export process.
In 2018, Iraq was able to resume production at the Qayyarah oil field in Ninewa Governorate, after expelling ISIS forces that controlled the field, and it carried out comprehensive reconstruction operations for the wells, facilities and pipelines that were damaged in the field, and then began to export its oil from this field overseas for the first time.
Since the resumption of work in this area, the Iraqi Ministry of Petroleum aims to increase production to 60,000 barrels, but it has not been able to do so so far.
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