Tehran, YJC. Officials say Iran and Iraq will launch a joint company to extract shared oil.
The
Spokesman of the Oil Ministry Alireza Nikzad Rahbar said in an interview with Fars
news agency that a number of agreements are going to be made before Iran and Iraq
would launch a joint company for extracting oil from shared fields.
"The
negotiations are in the initial phases yet and during the Minister’s visit to Iraq
the general policies have been discussed,” he added.
Iran
and Iraq have formed a committee which will take on the responsibility to
extract the shared oil. The head of the Iranian committee is the Deputy Oil
Minister Alireza Zeiqami. On the other side also one of the Iraqi Deputy Oil
Ministers will head the Iraqi committee.
Zeiqami
said "As was agreed by the two ministers, from each of the 3 groups of fields,
that is, operational fields, fields under development, and discovered fields,
one field has been chosen to be technically studied so that grounds could be
laid for expanding, operationalizing, and conducting research on them.
He stated
that this is the first time when Iran is jointly tapping a shared field, hoping
that this would be an example for more similar agreements.
He added
that while separately extracting oil from shared fields comes with detriments
for both sides, the operations carried out jointly will end as a win-win deal.