oil field
The two sides also reviewed means of realizing more discoveries, to benefit from rising international prices and secure local market needs.
The new discovery Abu Snan oilfield is expected to reach an output of about 18 million feet of gas and 4,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
Thousands of automated wells feed data on their performance into the firm’s supercomputers each evening.
Engineers on a key oil processing facility from two major fields in the Kirkuk area of predominantly Sunni Kurdistan, had fled, fearing the military advance.
