South Iraq’s Missan Oil Company to compensate farmers in its oil field

MISSAN / IraqiNews.com: The Chairman of the Compensations Committee in Missan Oil southern Iraq ’s Missan Oil Company had said on Friday that his company had formed a committee to compensate the peasants, whose agricultural areas fell within the Halfaya Oil Field, east of its Amara city.   “In response to the approval of the Oil Minister and the instructions of Missan Oil Company’s Director-General, a committee was formed to carry out field inspection for the losses, caused on the agricultural areas, within the limits of Halfaya Oil Field, now under development by a Chinese company, according to a contract with the Oil Ministry,” Mohammed Jabbar told IraqiNews.com news agency.   Jabbar said that the area of the said field exceeded 530 square km, representing the total area for the field developed by the Chinese company, adding that the number of farmers, who demanded compensation in the area had reached 70 farmers.   Missan Province is a rich oil province, producing about 100,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd), covering six oil fields in Bazergan, Abu-Gharb, Fakka, Halfaya and Amara areas, in addition to the Majnoun Oil Field, that belongs to Missan and Basra Oil Companies.   Missan also contains five discovered oil fields, that are still unproductive, which al-Huweiza, Rafi’e, Rafidain al-Sharqi, dujeila and Kumeit oil fields.   Missan, with one million population, stretching to 16,072 square km, center of which is Amara city, is 390 km to the south of Baghdad .   SKH (IT)   736