Name: East Baghdad
Controlled by: Ministry of Oil (Baghdad).
Location: Baghdad and Salahadin governorates, 10 kilometres east of Baghdad city. Densely populated.
Discovery: 1976
Reserves: 8 billion barrels of oil
Size: 65 kilometres long and 11 kilometres wide, covering only the section north-west of
the Diyala river.
Developed by: ZhenHua [Jinhua].
Contract granted: No bids were received in second licensing round (2009), but the Chinese company ZhenHua was granted an initial contract in late 2017.
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A full list of oil and gas fields controlled by the Ministry of Oil in Baghdad can be found here.