«Basra oil» choose Hyundai Engineering and Construction »to build a project for the treatment and injection of seawater

by **claud39** Mon Jun 03, 2019 7:40 am

«Basra oil» choose Hyundai Engineering and Construction »to build a project for the treatment and injection of seawater

06/03/2019

Economy News Baghdad

Iraq has chosen Hyundai Engineering and Construction to build a $ 2.4 billion seawater treatment and injection project, an important project to increase the country's oil production capacity, said Ihsan Abdul Jabbar, director of the Basra Oil Company.

Abdul Jabbar told reporters late on Sunday that giving the deal to Hyundai still requires final approval from the Oil Ministry.

He added that the project must be completed within four years and initially produce five million barrels of water per day and eventually to reach 7.5 million barrels per day of water.

Iraq, OPEC's second-largest oil producer, needs to inject water into its wells or risk losing pressure and facing significant declines, particularly in its old oilfields. The use of treated seawater is one of the best alternatives because freshwater is scarce resources in Iraq.

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