Iraq’s Basra Oil Company (BOC) has awarded KBR an integrated field management services (IFMS) contract to optimize operations at southern Iraq’s supergiant Majnoon oil field to help Baghdad boost countrywide oil production to 6 million B/D by 2029.
At the end of 2025, Iraq was producing 4.47 million B/D and ranked third among OPEC members behind Saudi Arabia (11.20 million B/D) and Iran (4.70 million B/D), the US Energy Information Administration reported in February.
KBR’s newest Iraq contract covers upstream engineering, project, and operations management, including drilling, subsurface engineering, and maintenance services, to enhance production at Majnoon by modernizing field facilities and implementing artificial intelligence and digital technologies, KBR said in a news release on 23 February.
In July 2025, KBR announced a 2-year extension of the engineering, procurement, and construction management contract it signed with BOC in 2018 for Majnoon. The supergiant field’s reserves rank among the world’s largest at 38 billion bbl estimated in place, but its output has fluctuated with cycles of war and political instability since the early 1990s.
Evolving Role in Iraq’s Oil Sector
KBR’s IFMS deal signals an evolution of the company’s role from one of project execution and brownfield/greenfield integration to achieve BOC’s goal of stabilizing Majnoon’s production at 200,000–240,000 B/D to a more sophisticated role in which KBR takes responsibility for integrating full upstream operations, according to the company.
“This award underscores KBR’s deep and diverse technical capability, including upstream operational services, and decades-long commitment to Iraq,” said Jay Ibrahim, KBR’s president for sustainable technology solutions.
The contract is expected to add approximately 2,000 new in-country jobs across Iraq’s engineering, construction, and oilfield services industries.
Reducing Flare Gas in Southern Iraq
Elsewhere in Iraq, KBR provided front-end engineering design for parts of Baghdad’s Gas Growth Integrated Project (GGIP), a $27 billion TotalEnergies-led project to reduce flaring at southern oil fields, including Ratawi, Rumaila, Majnoon, and West Qurna.
In November, KBR won a follow-on contract to provide detailed engineering design services for Ratawi under the Associated Gas Upstream Project Phase 2, a part of GGIP.