Name: Kirkuk
Controlled by: Disputed.
Location: In the governorate of Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, near the town of Kirkuk.
Discovery: 1927
Reserves: 8.7 billion barrels of oil
Size: An elongated, northwest-southeast oriented structure over 100 kilometers long and up to 4 kilometers wide.
Quality: variable
Developed by: North Oil Company
Contract granted: none
Contract duration: n/a
Remuneration: n/a
Production started: 1934
Plateau production target: n/a. Producing about 300k bpd early 2015.
Other companies involved in the development: BP
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A full list of oil and gas fields controlled by the Ministry of Oil in Baghdad can be found here.