Majnoon Island
Majnoon Island is an island in southern Iraq near Al-Qurnah that is a center for oil production of the Majnoon Oilfield. The area was built out of sand dunes and mud to create pathways for oil pipelines.
Before the Gulf War, roughly a sixth of Iraq's oil reserves, some seven million barrels, passed through this island. Production quickly recovered after the site was a center of fighting in the Iran-Iraq War, particularly Operation Kheibar in 1984. However, post the imposition of United Nations sanctions and the 2003 Iraq War, production has presently reduced to 46,000 barrels per day.
In December 2009, the Iraqi government awarded a license to a joint venture from Royal Dutch Shell and Petronas to take over operations at Majnoon Oilfield, and triple production from the estimated reserve of 13billion barrels at a fee rate of $1.39/barrel.[1] The joint venture company is 25% held by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, 45% by Shell and 30% by Petronas.[2]
References
The Longest War, by Dilip Hiro, Routledge Chapman & Hall, Inc., 1991. (pg. 103)
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