Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIV

No 39

26-Sep-2011

IRAQ

Full Production Set To Return To Rumaila After Explosion

Full output of 1.24mn b/d from Basra provinces Rumaila field was poised to return following an explosion on 20 September at an underground gas pipeline near a degassing station operated by state-owned South Gas Company (SGC).

For safety reasons surrounding oil producing operations were shut down, affecting some 650,000 b/d of capacity, a South Oil Company (SOC) source tells ...