Iraq hopes to resume production from Nineveh oil fields in coming months

BAGHDAD – Iraq hopes to resume production from the Nineveh oil fields in the "next few months" after they were torched by Islamic State during a US-backed offensive on their stronghold Mosul, the oil ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

The ministry instructed state-owned North Oil Company to prepare "an urgent plan" to rehabilitate the oil fields the militants had set on fire for smoke to cover their movements from the air.

Nineveh's oil fields, located mainly in the region of Qayyara south of Mosul, used to produce sour heavy crude.