LUKOIL Mid-East Limited (LUKOIL) is the designated operator of the West Qurna-2 (WQ-2) Contract Area, under a Development and Production Service Contract (DPSC) with Iraq’s Basra Oil Company. West Qurna is located in southern Iraq, in the province of Basra with the total recoverable oil reserves at the WQ-2 oilfield exceed 13 billion barrels of oil.
LUKOIL has initiated a comprehensive plan to conduct environmental monitoring of its WQ-2 Contract Area to assess the effectiveness of operational controls and demonstrate compliance with the requirements of Iraq’s BOC and Iraqi environmental laws. Dome International LLC (Dome) has been appointed by LUKOIL to conduct the environmental monitoring program for the WQ-2 Contract Area for three (3) years, from 2018 to 2020. The monitoring program has been carried out by Dome in four (4) stages every year (total of 12 monitoring stages for 3 years).