Sabah Abdul Kadhim, the head of the legal section of Iraq's Petroleum Contracts and Licensing Directorate, said the ministry would sign a final service contract for super giant Majnoon, which was awarded to Royal Dutch Shell and Malaysia's Petronas in a December energy auction, on 17 January.
Majnoon's reserves are a whopping 12.6 billion barrels, making it one of the world's largest untapped fields.
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