UPDATE: Oil Ministry names two new company chiefs

BASRA - Iraq's Oil Ministry has named new directors general for the state-run South Refineries Company (SRC) and North Gas Company (NGC).*

The senior deputy director general of the South Oil Company (SOC), Mahmoud Abdul Amir Hashim, will be the new director general at SRC, according to a Sept. 6 Oil Ministry decree seen by Iraq Oil Report and subsequently confirmed by SOC and SRC employees. Ahmed Fadhil Dehaim, previously the head of the SOC administrative board, will replace Hashim as deputy director general of SOC, according to two SOC officials.