U.S. giant oil services firm Baker Hughes Inc. (BHI) has joined U.K.-supergiant BP PLC (BP) and Schlumberger Ltd. (SLB) on separate talks with Iraq to more than double output from the country's giant Kirkuk oil field in northern Iraq, an Iraqi oil industry figure said Monday.

"Baker Hughes, BP and Schlumberger have shown interest to develop Kirkuk oil fields," the person, who is familiar with the Kirkuk oil field, told Dow Jones Newswires. "Iraq is conducting preliminary talks with these three companies to examine plans to develop the field," located in the oil hub of Kirkuk province in northern Iraq.

Iraq is aiming to sign a 5-10 year deal with one of these firm to bring output from the field from 280,000 barrels a day currently to 600,000 barrels a day eventually, the source said.

"Baghdad wants to bring output from the field to 600,000 in five years," he added.

-By Hassan Hafidh; Dow Jones Newswires; +962 799 831 831; Hassan.hafidh@dowjones.com

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