Russia's largest independent oil producer LUKoil won an auction on Saturday for a contract to develop one of Iraq's largest oil fields.
Iraq also awarded contracts to Anglo-Dutch oil major Shell, China's CNPC and Malaysia's Petronas during the two-day sale.
LUKoil will develop the 12.88 billion-barrel West Qurna-2 field in the Basra province as a consortium with StatoilHydro. The Russian company holds an 85% stake in the consortium, and the Norwegian oil producer has 15%. They aim to bring production to 1.8 million barrels per day.
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On Friday, the Majnoon field in the country's south, with reserves of 12.6 billion barrels was auctioned to Shell and Petronas.
CNPC led a consortium with Petronas and Total that won a contract on Friday for the Halfaya field in southern Iraq, with reserves of 4.1 billion barrels.
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