Protestors attack West Qurna 2 field
Unemployed Basra residents invaded the offices of a local subcontractor, after years of unfulfilled promises and weeks of frustrated protests.
Protesters in Nassiriya, north of Basra, last month warn foreign oil companies that unrest in western Iraq could lead to targeting their interests in southern Iraq. (STAFF/Iraq Oil Report)
BASRA - After weeks of protesting against unfulfilled promises of jobs and inadequate payments for farmland overtaken by oil field development, hundreds of residents of the villages around the West Qurna 2 oil field stormed the site.
The protestors attacked the Al-Iraq Al-Mu'asir Logistics Company, a local firm subcontracted by Samsung Engineering, which has a $998 million deal to build a central processing facility and other infrastructure at West Qurna 2.
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