The following article was published by Reidar Visser, an historian of Iraq educated at the University of Oxford and currently based at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. […]
By Gavin Jones, Director of Iraq Business News, and Partner at consultancy firm Upper Quartile. This article was originally published on the Emerging Economics blog. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. The U.S. and Iraq have failed to reach an agreement on […]
Gulf Keystone has announced that the Shaikan-5 appraisal well has spudded on the Shaikan block in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on 28th October 2011. Shaikan-5 is the third deep appraisal well to be drilled on the Company's major oil discovery with independently audited gross oil-in-place volumes of between 4.9 billion barrels and 10.8 billion […]
WesternZagros Resources has received payment for its first sale of crude oil to the domestic market in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. First oil production from the Sarqala-1 extended well test was achieved on October 18, 2011, and first lifting occurred by truck on 27th October. "Production start-up marks a new chapter in the Company's […]
Anglo-Arab Insurance Brokers (AAIB), the leading specialist insurer for Iraq Insurance, emerging and high risk countries across the Middle East and Africa, has announced the appointment of Mr Mekki R. Mustafa as its Senior Consultant in Iraq. The appointment will consolidate AAIB’s position in Iraq, where it is already the largest international insurance broker licensed […]
DNO International has announced on Monday the resumption of its share buyback program, originally announced on 10 August 2011. Between 18 August and 7 October, the Company acquired a total of 25,500,000 shares, which are currently held in treasury, pursuant to a shareholder approval to acquire up to 80,000,000 shares. "We believe that in current […]
The Missan Oil Company expects to increase output by 20 percent to 120,000 barrels a day by the end of this year The company’s Director General Ali Muarej told Boomberg that ten wells will be made operational at the Halfaya field south of Baghdad in the next two months to raise production. Total, China National […]
Rabee Securities Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) market report (week ending: 27th October 2011). Please click here to download a table of listed companies and their associated ticker codes. The RSISX index ended the week at ID1,540 / $1,768, -4.5% (weekly change). The number of weekly traded shares was 19.8bn and the weekly trading volume was […]
In our ongoing efforts to brings you all the best information on doing business in Iraq, we continue to add to the list of reports available from our reports service. This week we've added two reports on energy exploration and electricity generation: Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Outlook in Iraq to 2015, an essential […]
Iraq's core annual inflation (which excludes expenditure on fuel) increased from 7.1 percent in July to 7.6 percent in August, according to Reuters, driven mainly by higher prices of food and clothes over the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Central Bank Deputy Governor, Mudher Kasim, told the agency that the higher price of gold in […]
Bloomberg reports that Iraq will ask to rejoin OPEC’s quota system for crude output in 2014. The holder of the world’s fifth-largest oil reserves plans to increased production from an average of 2.9 million barrels a day to 3.4 million barrels a day next year, and 4.5 million barrels a day in 2013, said Falah […]
In an interview with Bloomberg, the new CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) said the state-run company looking at more opportunities in Iraq, and aims to exploit the synergy in its oil, gas and power businesses. Last week the company agreed to invest $46 million in WesternZagros Resources, acquiring a 19.9 percent […]
