Iraq to boost Majnoon field oil production by 2012, Shell says

Oil output from the Iraqi Majnoon field will increase to 175,000 barrels a day by 2012 from 75,000 barrels a day currently, according to Hans Nijkamp, vice president and country chairman, Iraq, for Royal Dutch Shell Plc.

Ordnance clearance works have so far covered 9 million square meters in Majnoon, he said at the Iraq 2011: Future Energy conference organized by The Energy Exchange in Istanbul. More than 14,000 items, dating back to the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s, were removed from the oilfield, Nijkamp said.