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Shell Opens Iraqi Oil Field
PLC officially opened Iraq’s Majnoon oil field in the south of the country on Sunday, aiming to reach 175,000 barrels a day in the coming weeks and passing a big milestone for both Shell and Iraq.
Majnoon, located near the city of Basra in southern Iraq, is one of four major fields that the country is developing with foreign companies and is vital to its ambitious plan to increase its output to at least 6 million barrels per day from the current production level of 3.2 million.
Shell, which started production from the field’s first well on September 20, said it had now opened the field’s other wells and officially inaugurated the field Sunday. Production will be ramped up to “175,000 barrels a day in the next weeks,” a Shell spokesperson said.
3 Comments on "Shell Opens Iraqi Oil Field"
BillT on Mon, 7th Oct 2013 2:50 am
Until they are shut down by riots or other ‘distractions’.
GregT on Mon, 7th Oct 2013 4:16 am
I’m sure the Iraqi people are pleased as punch, that the destruction of their society has led to the exploitation of their resources being taken by the most politically connected.
There will be riots, and there will be unrest. All peoples of this world deserve better, than to have their societies destroyed by empirialism, all in the name of greed, for a few very evil people.
Arthur on Mon, 7th Oct 2013 9:41 am
In 2013 Iraq is not really part of the US empire. Yes, the US has a few gigantic compounds, but they are largely meaningless. Listen to Edward Luttwak. He belongs to the core of the elite running the US and empire:
“A basic fact has to be established before any discussion about the Iraqi issue. And that is that the Americans defeated Saddam Hussein, but they did not really occupy Iraq. There is no. American and coalition forces have criss crossed Mesopotamia in all possible directions, but at no time did they hold more than a fraction of the territory of Iraq, and they do not hold any at present, except for parts of a few cities and some isolated bases. But that’s all. In most of Iraq there is no permanent control by western forces; and there cannot be. The total number of US troops that we have sent to fight this war is clearly insufficient, indeed it is ridiculously small for the task of occupying such a large country.”
What the US did was effectively undermine their own NWO agenda, by invading a secular led country. Syria (by proxy), same story. What they achieved was unleashing the forces of fundamentalist Islam. There will be no McDonalds and ‘gay rights’ or feminism in the Middle East, there will be Mosques and kashba’s and Bill Lind’s ‘Fourth Generation’ warriors, willing to die for their cause. The US could have prolonged it’s role as global hegemon by staying OUT of Iraq or Syria, but it choose not to. Meanwhile Iraq is free to sell it’s oil to the highest bidder. Shell openly declared that it’s US shale gas adventure turned out to be a costly failure…
http://tinyurl.com/l4dbd8z
… and apparently is more successful in it’s traditional way of producing carbon fuel.