Reuters Summit-UPDATE 1-Total sees Iraq oil deals this summer

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By Marie Maitre and Muriel Boselli

PARIS, June 4 (Reuters) - French oil major Total (TOTF.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) expects Iraq to award stakes in oilfields open to bids this summer, a senior executive told the Reuters Energy Summit on Thursday.

"It is a matter of two or three months starting from now... not only in Bin Umar but also in fields which are open for bids," said Jean-Jacques Mosconi, head of strategy and planning at Total.

Iraqi officials have said Total and Chevron (CVX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) have been invited to bid jointly against Norway's StatoilHydro (STL.OL: Quote, Profile, Research) for a contract to develop the 6-billion barrel Nahr Bin Umar southern oilfield.

In April, Iraq's Vice-President Adil Abd al-Mahdi said that Total had a very good chance of wining contracts in the country that holds the world's third largest oil reserves.

Baghdad is seeking foreign investment in an effort to boost production and modernise infrastructure devastated by decades of war, sanctions and neglect.

Mosconi said it would take some time to bring fields back on stream, but declined to say exactly how long it would take to restore higher levels of production, saying that element was part of the bids.