An Iraqi Oil Ministry delegation will meet in Amman later this week with senior executives from five oil majors to discuss the possibility of signing technical support agreements to help develop five oil fields, an Iraqi oil ministry spokesman said Tuesday.
"A delegation from the Petroleum Contracts and Licensing Directorate will be in
Amman
later this week to meet with five well-known international companies," Assem Jihad told Dow Jones Newswires in a telephone interview from
Baghdad
.
Jihad didn't name these companies but a former Iraqi senior oil official who is still close to the oil ministry said they were BP PLC (BP), Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB), ExxonMobil Corp. (XOM), Chevron Corp. (CVX), and Total SA (TOT).
Jihad said the
Amman
meetings would be the second round of talks
Iraq
is holding with these companies. The first was held in December last year, he said.
"If they reach conclusions they could sign technical agreements if not they would meet again in a third round," the official said.
These new agreements would help increase production in five producing oil fields which could include Rumeila and Missan in the south,
Kirkuk
in the north and
East Baghdad
in the center, Iraqi oil officials had said before.
These technical support agreements could be the first step before awarding service contracts to these companies to develop oil fields, the Iraqi officials said.
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