各公司增加對巴士拉油田投資

BAGHDAD, Oct 24 (Reuters) – Foreign oil companies will increase their investments to increase output in Basra, the main producing region of Iraq, state-owned South Oil Company Deputy Director General Salah Mahdi told Reuters on Monday.The companies’ investment budget increased to $7.29 billion in 2017, from $6.6 billion in 2016, he said on the sidelines of a CWC conference in Beirut.The companies that operate in southern Iraq are BP, Shell, Lukoil, Exxon, Eni, CNPC and Petronas.Iraqi officials said in August the nation’s oil output should increase next year by 250,000-350,000 barrels per day as companies improve yields from existing fields in the southern region that produces most of the nation’s crude.