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Majnoon to hit 175k bpd by June

<p>The Majnoon oil field, operated by a consortium led by Royal Dutch Shell, will restart operations at the end of June with 175,000 barrels per day (bpd).</p>
Vice President of Malaysia's Petronas, Datuk Abdullah Karim (2nd L) initials a contract as Peter Voser, the CEO of Shell, Mounir Bouaziz, Shell Upstream Vice President for Middle East and Africa, and Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani (R) look on, following the signing of a contract for the Majnoon field in southern Iraq on January 17, 2010, in Baghdad. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
Staff of Iraq Oil Report
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

BAGHDAD - The Majnoon oil field, operated by a consortium led by Royal Dutch Shell, will restart operations at the end of June with 175,000 barrels per day (bpd).

The expansion and re-opening of the field "was supposed to be inaugurated earlier, but the new date is the third week of June 2013," said Mahdi Badi, the head of the planning and follow up for the South Oil Company. "Majnoon oil field inauguration will start with 175,000 bpd."

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