Workers at the South Refineries Company’s Basra refinery on July 20, 2016. (ALI AL-AQILY/Iraq Oil Report)
BASRA – Iraq is poised to move forward with a Chinese consortium to build the long-anticipated Fao refinery in Basra, according to four officials familiar with the status of the deal.
The Chinese firm Hualu, a subsidiary of the state-owned China National Chemical Engineering Co. (CNCEC), is scheduled to sign a contract in Baghdad at the end of April, according to the officials. One Iraqi oil official said the signing…


