Iraq's Massive West Qurna 2 Field Resumes Oil Flows After Brief Outage

Barchart · 2d ago
Crude flow from Lukoil’s West Qurna-2 storage tanks has resumed toward the major Tuba depots after a weekend shutdown, two energy sources told Quantum Commodity Intelligence. Full field operations are expected to be restored between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m., following a precautionary halt triggered by a pipeline leak. West Qurna-2 is one of the world’s largest oilfields, producing roughly 460,000 barrels per day and holding an estimated 13 billion barrels of recoverable reserves—about 10% of Iraq’s total output. Lukoil operates…