Iraq has started work on the third and final phase of the Halfaya oil field expansion, with the goal to double production capacity next year, a company official at the state-run firm overseeing fields in the province told Reuters on Tuesday. With more facilities to separate crude oil from associated gas, production capacity at the Halfaya oil field is set to double to 400,000 bpd in 2018, said Adnan Noshi, head of Maysan Oil Co. The Halfaya oil field, operated by PetroChina, is the biggest field that Maysan Oil is overseeing, and is pumping 200,000 bpd. The total production of Maysan Oil is currently 380,000 bpd, Noshi told Reuters. Iraq, OPEC’s second-biggest producer behind Saudi Arabia, plans to boost its crude oil production by 600,000 bpd to 5 million bpd by the end of this year, regardless of its participation in OPEC’s production cut deal. Iraq has been the […]