"Law No. (9) Of 2006 Of Importing and Selling Oil Products"

"courses of the ministry"

"Law of Private Investment in Crude Oil Refining"

 "Development and Production Service Contract"

 "Technical Service Contract"

 "General Information for service contracts"

 "SOMO'S MEASUREMENT POLICY"

 "Announcement for Pre-qualification

 of The Second Bidding Round"

 "Extension for Pre-qualification

  of The Second Bidding Round"

IT.CENTER

Introduction

   The newly formed (IT) center manages the tasks of the year 2008 that provide parts of the requirements needed for the promising Iraqi petroleum industry return to the International Market.

         Main objectives expected to be fulfilled in 2008

1.     Updating the IT/IM infrastructure in the Ministry of Oil headquarters :

ــ  Assessment study for the Informatics status and suggesting the spread of immediate

   infrastructure updating requirements, and suggesting long term solutions .

ــ Updating the variable networks system in the Ministry of Oil headquarters .

ــ Designing a strategy that focuses on updating the man power in the Ministry of Oil, as far as IT is concerned .

ــ A comprehensive plan to update the details of the infrastructure management in the Ministry headquarters presented by the center in cooperation with the departments of the center .

ــ A plan to disseminate the informatics knowledge and encouraging the staff to act properly with technologies .

2.     Developing the complete petroleum archive :

ـــ The center launched gathering the explorative, geophysical, geological information and data, and the available information of the oil wells as a primary step in developing the unified petroleum archive, which will include all the available informatics variety in oil industry .

ـــ The center will  have a contract to purchase a central system for scanning , archiving and making the standard fundaments of the petroleum information and data, as the system ha been constituted in the Ministry headquarters, beside providing a substitute location with a disaster recovery solution outside the Ministry headquarters, connected to the center via an advanced communication system .

ـــ Through the projects that it will implement, the center on consolidating the principle of integration among the oil field establishments and provide the suitable technical and informatics services to manage the field and its affiliates, research centers, universities, and planning foundations .

 ـــ The center works on providing the potentiality that enables the expected foreign investments in Iraq to make use of the available information resulted from its petroleum process and activities inside Iraq, in such a way that preserve national benefits .