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Baghdad (, ', ) is the capital of Republic of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Province. The population of Baghdad as of 2011 is approximately 7,216,040, making it the largest city in Iraq, the second largest city in the Arab World (after Cairo, Egypt), and the second largest city in Western Asia (after Tehran, Iran).

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Halliburton Gets $95 Million Gazprom Neft Contract In Iraq

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S.-based energy services giant Halliburton Co (HAL) has won a $95 million contract from Russian state oil producer OAO Gazprom Neft (SIBN.RS) to test and complete 11 wells at the untapped Badra oil field in eastern Iraq, the firm said in a statement Thursday.Gazprom Neft, which is a majority-owned by gas giant OAO Gazprom (GAZP.RS), said testing of the first well, is scheduled to start in the third quarter of this year."Production will commence once the final field development plan is completed in 2013," the Russian firm said.The Gazprom consortium, which includes South Korea's Gas Corp. (036460.SE), or Kogas, Turkish Petroleum Corp., or TPAO, and Malaysia's Petronas, plans to start production from the field in 2013 and reach 170,000 barrels a day by 2017 according to a development plan agreed with the Iraqi government.Badra's reserves are estimated at about 3 billion barrels of oil.Gazprom, which owns the largest stake in the consortium at 40%, signed a contract with Baghdad to deve...

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