MOSCOW, March 9 (Reuters) - Russian oil firm Gazprom Neft SIBN.MM said on Thursday it had launched three new wells at the Badra oil field in Iraq.

The overall production rate of the three wells is 23 thousand barrels of oil per day, and daily output at the field has reached 77 thousand barrels, Gazprom Neft said.

(Reporting by Andrey Ostroukh; Editing by Alexander Winning) ((andrey.ostroukh@thomsonreuters.com;))