Lukoil flags billion barrel oil discovery in southern Iraq

摘要

Russia's Lukoil has made a "major discovery" holding a billion barrels of oil in an exploration block in southern Iraq awarded in 2012, the company's head of middle east upstream said. Lukoil has drilled an initial exploration well in Block 10 and is now conducting limited 3D seismic testing of 2,000 sq km of the area in southern Iraq, Gati al-Jebouri said Sunday "We believe exploration has found a 1-billion-barrel field," al-Jebouri said at the Iraq Energy Forum conference in Baghdad.