Iraq’s state-firm Midlands Oil aims to double production at the East Baghdad oilfield to 120,000 b/d by June 2026, according to 13 May comments by East Baghdad–South Operations Manager Firas Fawzi. EBS Petroleum - an Iraq-registered subsidiary of ZhenHua Oil which is in turn the oil-focused subsidiary of Chinese state-firm Norinco – operates East Baghdad–South.
Production at EBS was just under 53,000 b/d in April, while the Midlands’s operated East Baghdad–North stood at about 6,000 b/d. Oil from both flanks is comingled and processed at shared 60,000 b/d facilities at East Baghdad–South. (CONTINUED - 247 WORDS)