Basra Oil Company

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Basra Oil Company (BOC)

شركة نفط البصرة
Agency overview
Headquarters	Basra, Iraq 30°29′47″N 47°47′49″E / 30.49639°N 47.79694°E / 30.49639; 47.79694
Agency executive	Deyha Al-Mosawi, Director General
Parent agency	Ministry of Oil
Website	boc.oil.gov.iq

Basra Oil Company (BOC) (Arabic: شركة نفط البصرة), formerly Iraqi South Oil Company,^[1] is a national Iraqi company responsible for the oil in the south of Iraq. It is situated in Basra. BOC is one of the major fundamental formations of the Iraq National Oil Company (INOC). It was the first nucleus and the basis of national direct investment projects in the 1970s, where the BOC was subsidiary to the national company.