BAGHDAD, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Iraq's oil ministry said onSaturday that it was still in talks with U.S. energy giantExxonMobil over a major deal to improve the country'ssouthern oil infrastructure.
A deal with Britain's BP and Italy's Eni wasover the building of two seabed oil pipelines for Iraq'ssouthern exports through the Gulf, and was not part of the $53billion 30-year southern mega-project, the ministry said.
The lack of an agreement with Exxon so far did not meannegotiations were over or that Exxon has been excluded from theproject, it said in a statement.(Reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein; editing by John Stonestreet)
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