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Article: Iraq names head of new Oil firm.(International)(Missan Oil Co. appointed Ali Muarij)(Brief article)
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- The Oil Daily
- Article date:
- September 11, 2008
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Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani has named Ali Muarij, a petroleum engineer from southern Iraq, director-general of Missan Oil Co. (MOC), the first regional operating company to be set up since Iraq National Oil Co. was dismantled in 1987, Iraqi sources told Oil Daily from Baghdad Wednesday
The cabinet in June approved the creation of MOC to operate all oil fields in Missan province in southern Iraq, until now overseen by South Oil Co. (SOC) (OD Jul.1,p1). Al-Shahristani told Oil Daily in July that he intended to set up a second regional company in the Nasiriyah area of southern Iraq to cover Thi Qar governorate, home to oil fields such as Nasiriyah, ...