Pro-government forces have regained control of the Ajil and Hamrin oil fields, but militants from the so-called Islamic State (IS) group set fire to more than a dozen wells as they retreated. “The blowout of the wells took place sequentially,” said a senior official from the state-run North Oil Company (NOC), which officially operates the fields. “IS bombed 11 oil wells at Hamrin, another seven wells at Ajil. All are burning.”Before the fields were seized by IS militants in June 2014, Aj…