Q&A: Missan Oil Company DG Adnan Noshi Sajit

AMARA - Missan province has long been in the shadow of Basra, its bigger oil brother to the south.

But now the state-run Missan Oil Company, which was spun off from the South Oil Company in 2008, is producing nearly 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) and is targeting 1 million bpd of production by the end of the decade. The province holds reserves of nearly 10 billion barrels, according to a 2010 Oil Ministry study that has now surely been eclipsed by development.