Lukoil to boost spending at West Qurna 2
OAO Lukoil (LKOH), Russia’s biggest non- state company by market value, plans to boost investments in the West Qurna-2 oil field in Iraq to about $2 billion this year. Lukoil plans to carry out drilling and begin construction of a pipeline as it prepares the field for the start of production, the Moscow-based crude producer […]Anna Shiryaevskaya reports for Bloomberg:
OAO Lukoil (LKOH), Russia’s biggest non- state company by market value, plans to boost investments in the West Qurna-2 oil field in Iraq to about $2 billion this year.
Lukoil plans to carry out drilling and begin construction of a pipeline as it prepares the field for the start of production, the Moscow-based crude producer said in a corporate newsletter published on the website today.
The company invested more than $200 million in the project last year, Grigory Volchek, a Moscow-based spokesman for the company’s overseas unit, said by phone today.
