OREANDA-NEWS. January 23, 2013. Within the Oil Exploration Company (OEC) plan, The Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) started the exploratory drilling operations in the Sinbad oil field which is located in Shat Al-Arab town in Basra governorate.

Mr. Kareem Hattab Jaffar the director general of OEC said that, the oil field does not have any wells or surface facilities yet not a producing field, and added that the drilling operations was resumed after three decades downtime and the drilling was done depending on the Iraqi staff with 4300 meters depth. 

Mr. Kareem said also that, OEC is about to finish the 3D seismic survey for (Khasfat Ana) location in Anbar governorate and the technical reports will be resumed to the meant directorates in the oil ministry to do the necessary procedures.