Two new oil companies, six new provinces
Baghdad expands state oil sector in south and carves out potential new provinces in restive areas in the north where politics are always at play.
Iraqi Minister of State for Provincial Affairs Turhan Mufti (center) with politicians representing Rifai, looking at a map of the district. The delegation said they presented Mufti with a petition including tens of thousands of signatures to turn the district into a province. (STAFF/Iraq Oil Report)
Iraq's Oil Ministry has given the final technical approval needed to formally launch the Dhi Qar and Wasit state oil companies, which officials in the two up-and-coming oil provinces have demanded as a measure of rights to a degree of autonomy.
The move coincided this week with an Iraqi Cabinet decision to endorse, in principle, the formation of new provinces of Anbar province's Fallujah, Salahaddin province's Tuz Khurmatu, and Ninewa province's Ninewa Plains and Tal Afar.
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