FACTBOX-Fields eyed by oil firms in Iraq

June 25 - The following lists the Iraqi oil and gas fields in which international oil companies have shown interest and may bid for next week, according to company and industry sources.

Iraq has declared 32 international oil and gas firms as qualified to bid for the contracts on fields that account for more than a third of Iraq's total 115 billion barrels of reserves, the world's third largest.

Some of the oil companies plan to bid together.

Royal Dutch Shell has talked to Chinese firms on partnerships. China's CNPC has said it was talking to U.S. firms. France's Total has teamed up with U.S. firm Chevron. Russia's LUKOIL plans to bid with U.S. ConocoPhillips.

Other alliances were likely to emerge at the auction, oil executives said.

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FIELDS Bai Hassan - StatoilHydro, ConocoPhillips Kirkuk - Shell, Exxon Maysan - Shell and BHP Billiton Rumaila - Lukoil* and ConocoPhillips, BP, ONGC, Exxon West Qurna - Total and Chevron, ONGC Zubair - Exxon Mobil, ONGC GAS FIELDS Akkas - Edison*, Kogas, Total, Shell with Turkish

Petroleum Corp Mansuriyah - Edison*, Kogas * Information from company or company sources. Others from industry sources. - Maysan comprises three fields --Bazargan, Abu Gharab and Fakka in southern Maysan province)