Iraq discussed on Tuesday plans for investment in associated gas production at its largest oilfield, Rumaila, Iraq’s Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail said in a statement to Shafaq News agency . With BP as operator, the Rumaila oilfield produces 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil, or around a third of the crude oil pumped in OPEC’s second-largest producer after Saudi Arabia. Oil production at Rumaila has increased by 40 percent since 2010. “The maintenance of production in Al-Rumaila oil field and the available investment opportunities in oil and gas were discussed in a video conference held with the regional manager of BP in the Middle East, Stephen Willis, and the company’s director in Iraq, Zaid Al-Yasiri,” the Iraqi oil minister said today. Iraq needs to speed up development plans to invest in processing associated gas and address carbon emissions, Shafaq News agency quoted the minister as saying. […]