Article: Bahrain : Bahrain to start overhaul of oilfield at year-end.

Byline: manish03

Gulf Arab state Bahrain plans to start an overhaul of its Bahrain oil field by the end of the year, its top oil official said on Tuesday.

Bahrain has created a joint-venture with U.S. oil company Occidental Petroleum Corp (OXY.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Abu Dhabi's Mubadala to triple production of its Bahrain oil field to about 100,000 barrels per day in the long run.

"The company was established two weeks ago, the hand-over (of the field) will be at the end of the year or early next year, that's when they will start," Abdul-Hussain bin Ali Mirza, head of the National Oil and Gas Authority (NOGA), told ...

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