Oil production suspended at Iraq’s largest oil field

Shafaq News- Basra

Oil production has been fully suspended at the Rumaila oil field, Iraq’s largest and the world’s second-largest oil field, local sources told Shafaq News on Tuesday.

The decision followed disruptions to export operations linked to ongoing military activity in the region, which led to increased storage within the field and tanks reaching capacity.

Units of the Iraqi Army backed by armored vehicles deployed across the district of Al-Zubair, west of Basra, to secure oil fields and other vital facilities as tensions escalate between the United States, Israel, and Iran.

US-based Gulf Keystone Petroleum on Monday halted operations at the Shaikan oil field in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region as a precautionary measure. Dubai-listed Dana Gas and Oslo-listed DNO took a similar move.