IRAQ
 
Majnoon And Rumaila Give Iraq Much Needed Production Boost
 
The start-up of Shell’s Majnoon field and the return of Rumaila to full capacity will help raise Iraq’s production figures this month, following a precipitous 500,000 b/d fall to just over 2.8mn b/d for September, when maintenance work began to erect a new metering platform at the Basra Oil Terminal (MEES, 4 October).
 
But this stop-start scenario is likely to persist as Iraq struggles to...