Rumaila

Burning well in the Rumaila oil field (2003)

Rumaila is an oil field discovered in 1953 in Basra Governorate in southern Iraq .

Disputes between the government of Kuwait and Iraq were one of the causes of the outbreak of the Second Gulf War , as the Iraqi government accused Kuwait of tapping the oil field with horizontal drilling.

Rumaila is one of the world's largest oil fields. The oil field is currently being exploited by the British BP (47.6%) together with the Chinese China National Petroleum Corporation (46.4%) and the Iraqi state company State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) (6%).

In 2009 the production rate was 1.1 million barrels per day (bpd), which had increased to 1.4 million bpd by September 2016.

Individual evidence

↑ Thomas C. Hayes: CONFRONTATION IN THE GULF; The Oilfield Lying Below the Iraq-Kuwait Dispute . In: The New York Times . September 3, 1990 ( nytimes.com ).
↑ Bloomberg News: BP Says Return on Iraq's Rumaila to Compare With World Fields ( Memento of November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), July 28, 2009
↑ Reuters: Iraq signs deal with BP, CNPC for Rumaila field , October 8, 2009
↑ Sam Wilkin: Iraq Reveals Oilfields Output to Win Over OPEC Ahead of Meeting . In: Bloomberg.com . October 30, 2016 ( bloomberg.com ).

[1] Thomas C. Hayes: CONFRONTATION IN THE GULF; The Oilfield Lying Below the Iraq-Kuwait Dispute . In: The New York Times . September 3, 1990 ( nytimes.com ).

[2] Bloomberg News: BP Says Return on Iraq's Rumaila to Compare With World Fields ( Memento of November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), July 28, 2009

[3] Reuters: Iraq signs deal with BP, CNPC for Rumaila field , October 8, 2009

[4] Sam Wilkin: Iraq Reveals Oilfields Output to Win Over OPEC Ahead of Meeting . In: Bloomberg.com . October 30, 2016 ( bloomberg.com ).