The scope of the contract, which is effective from 28 June 2011, covers rotating machinery, degassing stations and cluster stations.

Petrofac’s Offshore Engineering & Operations (OE&O) business will lead the one-year contract.

Petrofac OE&O managing director Bill Dunnett said this contract will be run from the company’s operating center in Sharjah.

The Rumaila oil field was discovered by BP in 1953 and is located in southern Iraq, 32 kms from the country’s border with Kuwait.