Thi Qar Oil Co.

Dhi Qar Oil Company is an Iraqi oil company engaged in oil exploration, extraction, well operation, and management. Its operations are located in Dhi Qar Governorate. Dhi Qar Oil Company was formed from the South Oil Company in 2016. Its initial capital was $42 million. Since then, it has assumed management of four oil fields in Dhi Qar. The company operates four fields: Subba, Gharraf, and Nasiriyah.

Basra Oil Co.

The Basra Oil Company is an Iraqi state-owned oil company, affiliated with the Ministry of Oil. Its location and scope of operations are in Basra Governorate, in southern Iraq.

It is one of the 16 companies affiliated with the Ministry of Oil. It was formerly known as the South Oil Company, established on June 16, 1969, and its operations included Basra, Dhi Qar, Najaf, Karbala, and Wasit. In 2008, the Maysan Oil Company was established, dedicated to Maysan Governorate. The Dhi Qar Oil Company was established in 2016, dedicated to oil in Dhi Qar Governorate. The name of the South Oil Company was subsequently changed to the Basra Oil Company.

Oil Exploration Co.

Since its establishment, the company's activities have included exploration for crude oil and natural gas throughout Iraq. This includes conducting onshore seismic surveys in mountains, plateaus, plains, deserts, and marshlands, processing and interpreting seismic data, drilling exploratory and appraisal wells, and identifying some development problems associated with producing wells.
Most Iraqi lands have been surveyed using 2D seismic surveys. These seismic surveys have yielded impressive results, including the discovery of hundreds of oil reservoirs and fields. Hundreds of exploratory and appraisal wells have been drilled, especially since exploration work requires drilling exploratory and appraisal wells to evaluate the areas targeted for discovery.

Petroleum Research & Development Center

The Oil Research and Development Center (ORDC) is a division of the Ministry of Oil, established in 1992. Prior to 2003, the center's efforts focused on finding and manufacturing imported alternatives and materials needed by oil companies. After 2003, Iraq's opening up to the world and the fundamental changes that occurred in the center's objectives, the focus shifted to activities related to conducting scientific research, finding solutions to technical problems (refining, extraction, and corrosion) in the oil industry, conducting economic feasibility studies, economic models, econometrics, and launching a postgraduate research plan and contracting with Iraqi universities (through a mechanism for cooperation with universities, implemented by postgraduate students). Furthermore, the center opened up prospects for cooperation with international research centers to conduct a number of applied studies, continuing the researcher exchange program with international institutes, exchanging expertise with other research centers, and protecting the environment by conducting environmental monitoring operations for the activities of local and foreign oil companies operating in licensing rounds by concluding environmental monitoring contracts, in addition to conducting laboratory tests for oil sector companies, ministries, foreign companies, and postgraduate students.

Oil Projects Co.

The Company for Oil Projects (SCOP) is an Iraqi state-owned company affiliated with the Ministry of Oil. It specializes in managing oil projects. The company is responsible for planning and executing seismic surveys, designing oil projects, implementing field projects, conducting engineering investigations, and launching project commissioning.

KIRKUK OIL TRAINING INSTITUE

It was established in 1951 in the Arafa area. In 1991, the institute was moved to Baiji. In 2000, a petroleum institute was established in the same old location in Kirkuk, affiliated with the Baiji branch. Then, on April 10, 2005, an independent petroleum institute was established in Kirkuk. On April 2, 2009, the new building of the institute was opened opposite the site of the Iraqi Drilling Company/Second Operations Authority.

Baghdad Oil Training Institute

It was established on January 15, 1971, and the first batch graduated in 1973. Its area is 80,800 square meters, and it is considered one of the largest Iraqi and Arab petroleum institutes in terms of student capacity.