This came during his participation on Wednesday, in the celebration hosted by the British company (BP) on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of signing the technical service contract for Rumaila field in Basra province.

Abdul-Mahdi said during the ceremony that the ministry is ongoing in the plans set out in the development of the fields and increase the production in order to reach conclusions drawn by the ministry’s targets seeking to be achieved, stressing that the change in the lower price did not change from the ministry’s plans that work with its partners in this great project, which is Rumaila field and other key projects that will develop the oil industry in Iraq.

At a news conference, the Minister of Oil answered reporters' questions about the agreement between the federal government and Kurdistan Regional Government and if it will contribute to increase the production?

Abdul-Mahdi said that "the agreement will ease the deficit by increasing production and we began to receive quantities of oil amounting to 150 000 barrels of the region’s oil and soon we will export Kirku’s oil in the beginning of next year after the completion of the technical and technological issues in connecting pipes and there is work to connect Hafana fields and Baba Karkar fields in Kirkuk as a prelude to connect most of the production of Kirkuk using transportation pipelines in the region, as we seek to export the agreed quantities that may expect improvement and raise oil exports where the official statement of government guarantees the details of the agreement. "

With regard to oil and gas law and the relationship between the provinces and the federal government? Abdul-Mahdi said that, "We held at the ministry headquarters an important workshop in this regard in order to listen to all views and proposals, but what’s important is to speed up the legislation of the oil and gas law, which regulates the relationship between the producing provinces , the region and the federal government that should not remain in the range of interpretations of the constitutional texts that we submitted in the Council of Ministers and stressed the importance of expediting the enactment of the oil and gas law , this legislation is in everyone's interest to become right , clear and legal in resources and management of oil operation of all the producing provinces for oil and gas.