Oil production capacity will be increased in Kirkuk

A choice was taken relating to the production capacity in Kirkuk, Iraq, which stands out with its oil reserves.

Crude oil production capacity will be increased on the subject in the Hemrin Mountains area to the west of town.

Each day capacity will be increased to five thousand barrels

In a written assertion made by the Iraqi Northern Petroleum Firm, it was acknowledged that the Hemrin oil subject, which was destroyed by the terrorist group DAESH, has been repaired and developed and the crude oil production capacity there will be increased to five thousand barrels per day.

Within the assertion, it was acknowledged that severe steps had been taken for the event of all oil fields in the sector of the Northern oil firm, upon the instruction of the Ministry of Petroleum, and that the take a look at course of for extracting oil from the wells was began.

Steps will be taken relating to different oil fields

Within the assertion, which didn’t embrace the quantity of crude oil extracted from the wells in the sector earlier than, it was acknowledged that it’s planning to extract 5 thousand barrels of crude oil per day from the sector in the close to future.

Within the assertion, it was acknowledged that steps will be taken to develop different oil fields in the area moreover the Hemrin oil subject.

350 thousand barrels of crude oil export per day

In accordance with the information of AA, Northern Oil Firm, one of many three oil corporations (North, Central and South) beneath the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, exports roughly 350 thousand barrels of crude oil day by day from Kirkuk.

Daesh’s assaults

The terrorist group DAESH captured all of Iraq’s Mosul, Salahaddin and Enbar provinces and components of Diyala and Kirkuk provinces in June 2014, and likewise the Hemrin Mountains, which begins from the west of Kekuk, the place the Hemrin oil fields are positioned, and extends to the Diyala border in the east of the nation. had seized.

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory over the group on December 9, 2017.

Though it has been greater than 4 years since DAESH was pushed out of the area and the cities had been recaptured, the group’s presence and assaults proceed, particularly in the agricultural areas of Kirkuk, Diyala, Mosul, Salahaddin and Enbar provinces.