Plans to drill for oil in the protected Mesopotamian Marshes of southern Iraq have galvanised villagers and activists ...

The Missan Oil Company says that 300 square kilometres (116 square miles) of the field's area overlap with the marshes' buffer zone, but that the oilfield does not encroach on the core.

MISSAN: A Chinese company has began construction of a large oil field in southern Iraq's Halfaya area, with a productive capacity of 100,000 barrels per day (bpd), Missan Oil Company's Director said ...

the oil-rich country awarded a Chinese firm the rights to explore the Huwaizah field. Several residents of Abu Khsaf, the village in Missan province where the meeting with activist Janubi was held ...

Eastern Missan is home to six producer oilfields: al-Bazrakan, Abu Gharb, al-Fekka, al-Halfaya and al-Amara in addition to the Majnoon field, which is a joint one with the South Oil Company (SOC).