(FILES) -- In this file photo dated May 14, 2008, A US soldier from the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, throws the ball while playing baseball with comrades at a field in front of empty oil tanks inside their forward operating base at Yusufiyah, located in the so-called "triangle of death", around 16 kilometres (10 miles) south of Baghdad. Iraq plans to award contracts to 41 foreign oil majors next week in a bid to ramp up production that gives multinationals a potentially lucrative foothold in the nation's huge oil fields. AFP PHOTO/FILE/MAURICIO LIMA