China starts oil field project in Iraq

On the largely spacious land of Iraq’s eastern province of Wasit, Chinese faces among local Iraqis heavily guarded by security forces appeared on the site of the al-Ahdab oil field project the two sides agreed to jointly develop, which would see a 110,000 barrels per day (bpd) production in the coming six years.

Several trucks packed with oil equipment and workers in orange uniform are in their last-minute preparation for a kick-start of Iraq’s first foreign oil works in decades.
ChinaDaily