Review study of the First Stages for discovery and Producing Oil in Iraq

Authors

  • Safaqis Qasim Hadi University of Baghdad/ College of Arts / Department of Geography & G I S

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31973/aj.v0i129.573

Keywords:

Oil, Source Rocks, Reservoir, Oil discovery

Abstract

The Knowledge  of oil in Iraq returns to thousands years, Indeed  it was  mentioned in the  holy books and it was called (the  eternal fire).The Babylonians may use it in  the construction( buildings) as well as using t to align the walls . The ancient also  used  it in medicine and wars. Indeed , the population in Iraq as in Mendeli , Ghayara and Kirkuk used it by the old  ways since the beginning of nineteenth Century. Thus the foreign companies came on often the other  to search oil in Iraq after  the other  to search oil in Iraq after German delegation study for the  geology of Iraq surface in 1871 .This company declared the existence of  great quantity of oil in  Iraq. Since that time , Iraq became the center of foreign companies competition for digging and producing oil. At that  times many companies  got privileges to invest oil especially Germany , British , Holland  and U.S.A. The starting of the first world war effect on investing oil so that many companies  would be established were ended  by the beginning of oil nationalization in Iraq.

    The geographic distribution of oil wells differs for quantity and quality between the north and south places according to the quality of rocks and geological structure for Iraqi surface.

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Published

2019-06-15

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Geography

How to Cite

Qasim Hadi, S. (2019). Review study of the First Stages for discovery and Producing Oil in Iraq. Al-Adab Journal, 129, 431-446. https://doi.org/10.31973/aj.v0i129.573

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