Contracting sources said BP was reviewing the final bids with an award imminent.
BP said recently that the political impasse that has delayed the formation of Iraq’s new government for more than six months has had no effect on the work it is carrying out with China National Petroleum Corporation.
Rumaila produces almost half of Iraq’s total output of 2.5 million barrels per day, and contains an estimated 17 billion barrels of crude reserves.
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