Winners



West Qurna Phase Two
 Location: South Iraq.
 Won by: Lukoil (85%) & Statoil (15%). An as yet unnamed Iraq partner will be added at a later date with a 25% share taking Lukoil and Statoil 63.75% and 11.25% respectively.
 Scope: Reserves of 12.9 billion barrels. Winning consortium pledged to raise production to 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) with a remuneration fee of $1.15 per barrel.



Qayara and Najmah fields
 Location: Northern Iraq near the city of Mosul.
 Won by: Sonangol (Angola)
 Scope: Reserves of 800 million and 858 million barrels respectively. Sonangol pledged to raise production to 120,000 and 110,000 bpd over nine years and will be paid $5 and $6 a barrel respectively.



Majnoon
 Location: Southern Iraq, near Iranian border.
 Won by: Shell-led consortium with Petronas.
 Scope: Reserves of 12.58 billion barrels. Consortium to raise production to 1.8 million bpd over 10 years with a remuneration fee of $1.39 per barrel produced.



Gharraf
 Location: Southern Iraq.
 Won by: Petronas-led consortium with Japex.
 Scope: Reserves of 863 million barrels. Consortium pledged to increase production to 230,000 bpd over 13 years with a remuneration fee of $1.49 per barrel.



Halfaya
 Location: Southern Iraq.
 Won by: China National Petroleum Corp.-led consortium with Petronas and Total.
 Scope: Reserves of 4.1 billion barrels. Consortium pledged to increase production to 535,000 bpd over 13 years with a remuneration fee of $1.40 per barrel.



Badra
 Location: Eastern Iraq near Iranian border.
 Won by: Gazprom-led consortium with Turkey's TPAO, Korea's KOGAS and Petronas.
 Scope: Reserves of 109 million barrels. Winning consortium pledged to raise production to 170,000 bpd over seven years with a remuneration fee of $5.5 per barrel.



Fields that didn’t attract bids



Kifl, West Kifl, Merjan, Qamar, Gullabat, Naudman, Khashim al-Ammar and East Baghdad.



Iraq Oil Ministry said it would develop them alone. 

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 The absence of US oil companies from the winning bidders surprised many industry experts and appeared to contradict claims that they would end up being the major developers of Iraq’s vast hydrocarbon reserves.

В аду проходит экскурсия. Группа проходит мимо котлов, в которых вечно варятся грешники.
 Hа одном котле навешаны сотни замков, стоит несколько крышек, и весь он завален тяжелыми камнями.
 Спрашивают экскурсовода:
 - Почему так?
 - Здесь находятся евреи. Один выберется - остальных за собой утащит.
 Дальше идут, видят котёл, на котором нет крышки вообще.
 - А тут что?
 - Немцы. Мы строго приказали "не вылезать", вот они и сидят тихо.
 Опять дальше идут, видят такой же котёл без крышки.
 - А тут что, тоже немцы?
 - Нет, тут русские. За них не страшно, даже если кто-то выберется - другие его обязательно затащат назад.