Oil expats evacuate Basra, lasting impact of unrest unclear
As hundreds of foreign oil workers rushed to the Basra airport, a top Maliki envoy arrived in Basra assuring the security of projects.
Flares burn at the Rumaila oil field. (BEN VAN HEUVELEN/Iraq Oil Report/Metrography)
BASRA - Hundreds of expatriate workers were evacuating Basra on chartered flights Wednesday and Thursday following violent protests that sent one British national to the hospital.
Rumaila operator BP has begun temporarily scaling down its foreign workforce, and expatriate workers of at least two oil service and drilling firms, Baker Hughes and Schlumberger, were massed at the Basra airport.
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