By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News.
The Latest Combined Licensing Round- Disappointment for Al-Sudani Government and a Huge Economic Burden Absolutely Unjustified
For three consecutive days (May 11-13), the Ministry of Oil (MoO) organized the "Fifth Plus" and "Sixth" licensing rounds, offering 29 oil and gas fields and exploration blocks.
This intervention aims to evaluate this combined round and was based mainly on the official statements posted on the MoO website, on the daily reports issued by the Iraq Oil Report (IOR), on my database, and with information provided by Abdul Mahdy Al-Ameedi - former Director General of the Petroleum Contracts and Licensing Directorate (PCLD) at the MoO.
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Mr Jiyad is an independent development consultant, scholar and Associate with the former Centre for Global Energy Studies (CGES), London. He was formerly a senior economist with the Iraq National Oil Company and Iraq's Ministry of Oil, Chief Expert for the Council of Ministers, Director at the Ministry of Trade, and International Specialist with UN organizations in Uganda, Sudan and Jordan. He is now based in Norway (Email: mou-jiya(at)online.no, Skype ID: Ahmed Mousa Jiyad). Read more of Mr Jiyad's biography here.
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