Rumaila field

Rumaila field

The Rumaila Field is an oil field located in Kuwait and southern Iraq. The dispute between Iraq and Kuwait over slant-drilling in the field was one of reasons for Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. [Thomas C. Hayes, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3D7173CF930A3575AC0A966958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print CONFRONTATION IN THE GULF;The Oilfield Lying Below the Iraq-Kuwait Dispute] , "The New York Times", September 3, 1990] This giant oil field was discovered by Braspetro, a Brazilian company in the 1970s.fact|date=November 2007 Under Saddam Hussein, it was nationalized by Iraq. Since then, this massive oil field remains under Iraqi and Kuwaiti control.

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