Basra Oil Co. (BOC) has let a contract to KBR Inc., Houston, for the development of the Majnoon oil field in Basra, Iraq (OGJ Online, Dec. 27, 2017).
KBR will provide overall project management, multi-discipline engineering support, procurement and construction management services under a two plus one-year extendable service contract.
Majnoon, which lies in southern Iraq 70 km north of Basra City, is one of the world's largest oil fields with 38 billion bbl of oil in place, according to the Iraqi government. The field produces about 220,000 b/d of oil.
