Exxon Mobil employees begin evacuating West Qurna 1 oilfield in Iraq’s Basra
Saturday 18/May/2019 - 01:23 PM
Exxon Mobil has evacuated all its foreign staff members out
of Iraq’s West Qurna 1 oilfield and is flying them out to Dubai, three sources
told Reuters on Saturday.
Production at the oilfield was not affected by the
evacuation and work there is under way normally and being undertaken by Iraqi
engineers, Iraqi oil officials said.
Staff were evacuated over several phases late on Friday and
early on Saturday, either straight to Dubai or to the main camp housing foreign
oil company employees in Basra province.
Those in the camp are en route to the airport now, the three
sources - an employee at a security company contracted by Exxon, an Iraqi oil
official, and a staff member of a foreign oil company - said.
