IRAQ

Chinese Team Completes Drilling Three Wells in al-Zubayr 

A 56-member Chinese team last month finished drilling three production wells in the al-Zubayr oilfield in southern Iraq, according to the Chinese News Agency, Xinhua, on 15 November. The team, which completed the work in seven and a half months, was sent to Iraq under a contract signed between the Chinese Petroleum Engineering Construction Corporation and Iraq National Oil Company (INOC). Xinhua added that Iraq has asked...