Iraq promises security for oil companies

Oil companies and their employees need not worry, the areas of oil deposits in the province of Basra in southern Iraq is completely cleared of mines and unexploded ordnance. There was no danger. This was stated by the Iraqi government television channel Al-Iraqiya, "security officials in South oil company (YUNK). Recall that at the end of last year - the beginning of the Iraqi government has signed several large service contracts to develop and produce oil from a number of international companies. Among them: "LUKoil and Gazprom Neft. With the help of foreign investment Baghdad hopes to boost oil production in the next 6 years is almost 5 times. Official Iraqi authorities hope to eventually increase production to 10 million barrels per day. "Deminers were removed more than 850,000 unexploded ordnance in the area of ??oil fields, to allow maintenance of drilling and pipeline construction," - said the expert on explosives YUNK Colonel Mahdi Yousef. "West Qurna cleared of explosive devices of all kinds," - he said.