Oil Minister lays foundation stone for converting an oil zone in Basra to tourist

Oil Minister lays foundation stone for converting an oil zone in Basra to tourist


Thursday April 20, 2017 9:58


News / Basra
Oil Ministry announced on Thursday for laying the foundation to transform Amuftih area located within the province of Basra from the oil region into a tourist area, as well as the opening of the station cut tape for the production of liquid gas in the Shuaiba refinery.

He said media director at the ministry , Assem Jihad , in an interview with Alsumaria's News, said that "the oil minister Jabbar Allaibi laid the foundation stone in Amuftih area in preparation to make it a tourist recreation area after it was occupied by the distribution of petroleum products body branch , " noting that " the distribution of petroleum products body decides to transfer to an alternative outside of the city, and areas that were occupied by the site will see the implementation of projects to create public parks and tourist facilities and leisure , some will be through investment, and others carried out by the formations and the oil ministry in the province. "
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Jihad and pointed out that " the ministry 's decision aims to contribute to the provision of a tourist environment in Basra, as well as ridding the population of the area Amuftih of the inconvenience that was caused by their continuous traffic for the transfer of fuel tanks."

The media director at the ministry that " the minister went after the foundation stone was laid in the area Amuftih to the General Company for refineries south headquarters in the Shuaiba area to cut the opening of the station bar for the production of liquid gas capacity of 200 tons per day."

The province of Basra is the oil industry center in Iraq , and the most important oil cities in the world, producing more than three million barrels per day, and through the coastal warehouses and ports and marine platforms floating exports most of the Iraqi quantities of oil, as the province has more than 59% of the total Iraq 's oil reserves, which includes five largest oil fields in the country are Rumaila North and South Rumaila and Majnoon and West Qurna and Zubair , and those fields shall develop foreign companies according to the rounds of the controversial licenses.


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