Hospital in Kut admits 7 wounded Chinese oil company workers

WASSIT / IraqiNews.com: A hospital in southern Iraq’s city of Kut has received 7 injured workers from the Chinese Oasis Company for Oil Extraction for treatment who were injured in a road accident, al-Zahraa Hospital source said on Monday. “Al-Zahraa Public Hospital in Kut has received early on Monday 7 injured workers of the Chinese Oasis Company for Oil Extraction in al-Ahdab Oil Field, 25 km to the west of Kut, to receive treatment. Some of the injured are in serious condition, and have been sent to Baghdad Hospital” the hospital source said. The source reported that the cause of the injuries remains unknown, but he quoted the Oil Field’s administration as having stated that “the injuries were caused by an accident inside the Field,” giving no further details. The Chinese Oasis Oil Company had started works to implement al-Ahdab Oil Field in April, 2009, at an investment cost of US$3 billion (b), to produce crude oil averaging 115,000 barrels per day (bpd. In addition, they use the gas extracted from the oil field and part of the crude oil to supply northern Kut’s al-Zubeidiya Electricity Station. Al-Ahdab Oil Field in al-Ahrar village, 25 km to the west of Kut, is one of the Iraqi oil fields that were not invested in, which is hoped to produce 200,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd). The oil field was discovered in 1979. Kut, the center of Wassit Province, is 180 km to the southeast of Baghdad. SKH (TI)/SR 640