Iraq’s Batna Oil Field resumes production after 20 years of stoppage

NINEWA/ IraqiNews.com: Northern Iraq’s Batna Oil Field in Nineveh Province has resumed production after 20 year stoppage, with Iraqi cadres, an official in Nineveh Oil Comission said on Tuesday, expressing hope that its production would exceed 2,000 barrels per day (bpd). “The comissioning of Batna Field, one of the oil fields in northwest Mosul’s Zummar town, stopped more than 20 years ago, shall add a new production energy, exceeding 2,000 bpd, in Nineveh Province,” the official source, who asked not to be named, told IraqiNews.com News Agency. The source said “Batna Oil Field had been rehabilitated and commissioned by Iraqi cadres of the state-owned North Iraq’s Oil Company,” without adding further details. Mosul, the capital of Ninewa Province, is 405 kms to the north of Baghdad. SKH . 3