(31 Dec 2008) SHOTLIST
Baghdad, Iraq - 31 December 2008
1. Wide of news conference held by Iraq's oil minister Hussein al-Shahristani
2. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Hussein al-Shahristani, Iraq's oil minister:
"We announce, today, the second round of licensing. According to the service contracts prepared by the Oil Ministry, 11 oil and gas fields will witness a comprehensive development. The fields are: Majnoon, West Qurna, Siba gas field in Basra, Halfaya in Maysan province, al Gharaf field in Dhi Qar province, Kifl, West Kifl and Merjan and Eastern Baghdad field.''
3. Wide of media at news conference
4. Mid of al-Shahristani flanked by two officials on stage during news conference
5. Wide of news conference
FILE:
al-Ahrar district northwest of Kut, south of Baghdad - 27 August 2008
6. Wide pan (right to left) of the area where Ahdab oil field is located
7. Various of the director of the district and other officials walking amid the field site
8. Various of the Ahdab oil field hydrant
STORYLINE:
Iraq's oil minister has announced that 11 oil and gas fields are open to bidding from developers in the second post-war round of licensing.
They include the huge Majnoon and West Qurna fields, which are only partially developed and producing far less than their estimated potential individual output of 600-thousand barrels a day.
The announcement on Wednesday by Oil Minister, Hussein al-Shahristani, comes six months after the first round of licensing bidding was opened.
Contracts from that round are expected to be signed in the middle of next year and those for the second round by the end of the year.
Iraq holds the world's third largest proven reserves of crude, with more than 115 (b) billion barrels of oil.
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