Posted on 12 December 2011. Tags: Exxon, ExxonMobil, KRG, Maliki, oil contracts, West Qurna Nouri al-Maliki has said that the iraqi Government has no intention to cancel the contract with ExxonMobil to develop the West Qurna 1 oil field. “We haven’t cancelled its contract in the south,” said Mr. Maliki in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “We are looking for a way for [ExxonMobil's] other contracts in any area to be within the legal contexts, but as for cancelling its contract in the