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Iraq’s oil minister has said that a massive US$10 billion engineering, procurement and construction contract for the super giant Nassiriya will be awarded to one of the two remaining bidders within the next month.
Dr Hussain al-Shahristani has told the two bidders, a consortium led by Japanese refiner Nippon Oil and the Italian supermajor Eni, that the decision would be made within a month.
“We are at the final stage of choosing the winning bid,” Shahristani is quoted by Reuters as saying.
The Japanese consortium has been pursuing the contract the most vigorously and a Japanese newspaper even reported that it had been successful. The report proved to be premature.
Iraq’s oil ministry has high hopes for the Nassiriya. It is hoping that a yield of 150,000 barrels per day (bpd) will be achieved for the first two years after drilling with a target of 600,000 bpd after that. Eni has estimated that the field has the potential output of up to 1 million bpd.
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