LONDON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Oil services group Petrofac is not aware of a formal notification it has been suspended from bidding for new contracts in Iraq, its Chief Financial Officer Alastair Cochran said on Wednesday. The Director General of Iraq’s Basra Oil Company Ihsan Abdul Jabbar told reporters in London in June that Iraq had taken “preventive action to freeze the relation for new bids with Petrofac”. Petrofac is the subject of an ongoing investigation by Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) after the conviction in February of its former global head of sales, David Lufkin, on 11 counts of bribery relating to Iraqi and Saudi deals. Reporting by Shadia Nasralla, editing by Louise Heavens
Iraq told shareholders it is not aware of a formal notification that the company has been suspected of bidding for new business in Petrofac . Comments made by Shadia Nasralla during a H1 results call were in response to a statement made by Petrofac Iraq ’s Basra Oil Company in Aug 28 that Iraq had taken action to freeze Petrofac from making new bids.