North Oil Company ( N.O.C. ) is a state company within the Ministry of Oil of Iraq, the scope it’s work being oil and gas production. The company’s geographical operation area spans the following governorates: Kirkuk, Nineveh, Erbil, Baghdad, Diyala and part of Hilla and Kut. The company carries out the duties of producing crude oil and natural gas from oil and gas Fields situated in the northern half of Iraq. N.O.C. supplies crude oil of different types to Iraqi refineries and associated gas to North Gas Company units and to electric generation stations as well as for export through a network of pipeline system toward north and west of the country for export from terminals in Turkey and Syria.