Iraqi Oil Minister Abdelkarim al-Luaybi and Kirkuk provincial Governor Najm al-Din Omar Karim also attended the field visit after talks in the province’s capital, Reueters reported.

As first reported by Upstream in early September, BP signed a deal with Baghdad that will see the explorer invest $100 million over 18 months to assess the Baba and Avana formations at the field which lie on land controlled by the central government.

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