Iran is targeting a dramatic increase in oil production from the fields it shares with neighbouring Iraq, according to the chief executive officer of its Petroleum Engineering and Development Company (PEDEC), Nasrollah Zarei. These include its enormous Azadegan oil field (split into North and South sites) that sits on the same reservoir as Iraq’s huge Majnoon site, and the massive Yadavaran oil field which occupies the same reservoir as Iraq’s Sinbad site. Other notable major shared fields – among many others — are Azar (on the Iran side)/Badra (on the Iraq side), Naft Shahr (Iran)/Naft Khana (Iraq), Dehloran (Iran)/Abu Ghurab (Iraq), West Paydar (Iran)/Fakka (Iraq), and Arvand (Iran)/South Abu Ghurab (Iraq). This is part of a broader-based plan to bring output across all Iran’s major fields in the ultra-rich oil field cluster of West Karoun to 1 million barrels per day (bpd) from the current 480,000 bpd.
