| Posted: 27-Jul-09 at 18:19 | IP Logged
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) -- Iraq said it had removed the Siba gas field in southern Basra province from a list of 11 gas and oilfields to be offered later this year in a second bidding round for development contracts.
Abdul-Mahdy Al-Ameedi, deputy director general of Iraq’s contracts and licensing directorate, said Iraq would move ahead with the offer of 10 other sites, some comprising a group of several fields.
“There were 11 fields, but the Oil Ministry last week decided to exclude the Siba gas field in Basra ... The reason is that this was considered a small field that the (state-run) South Oil Company can develop itself,” Ameedi told Reuters.
It is the small fields that Petrel was supposed to be after but as it says above SOC is going to develop it itself.
So if Iraq is going to develop smaller fields itself what is there left for any smaller companies?
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