WesternZagros Resources Ltd. is continuing concerted efforts to bring the Kurdamir-1 well safely under control. The operational status of the well is unchanged; it remains shut-in, and there has been no release of hydrocarbons or hydrogen sulphide (H2S) at the surface. There have been no injuries. Specialists from Boots & Coots International Well Control Inc. […]
China is now the biggest importer of Saudi oil, the second-biggest of Iranian oil, and the largest player in the Iraqi oil game and "being very aggressive,"
The Iraqi National Investment Commission has said some of the projects — worth nearly $70 billion (Dh257.4 billion) — are expected to be finalised in the near future. The news comes after Emirates announced it will begin flights to Baghdad in July. Etihad Airways has been flying to the Iraqi capital since April.
Mudhhir Mohammed Saleh, who is a member of the Central Bank's board of advisers, told RFI that foreign banks are conspicuous by their absence in Iraq for a variety of reasons, including security concerns and the lack of a favorable legal framework.
Eight international companies are competing to win the Baghdad Metro Project and update its studies and designs. It is estimated that the implementation of this project will total roughly 3 billion Dollars
The Iraqi government has dissolved state-owned Iraqi Airways over a decades-old financial dispute dating back to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of his oil-rich neighbor Kuwait
My view is that the Iraqi Government has been a great deal more astute than many of the Governments advising them - 20:20 hindsight is wonderful – but we have come a long way since the world announced last years licence round as a flop
Oil revenues in the first four months of 2010 reached $17 billion, exceeding by one billion the general budget’s expectations, spokesman for the oil ministry said on Friday.
CNOOC's attempts to enter a number of foreign markets, such as the US, rejected over concerns of control of strategically important energy assets - the firm has long been attempting to enter markets where it is likely to be greeted with less hostility, such as Iraq.
Baghdad approval to pay for foreign companies in Kurdistan region is temporary and does not constitute a solution
Iraq expects output at its Nassiriya oilfield to hit 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2014, the head of state-run South Oil Co. (SOC) said on Friday, after the OPEC member decided to develop the field on its own.
Iraq expects crude output from its southern oilfields, Rumaila, Majnoon and West Qurna Phase One, to reach about 2.1 million barrels per day (bpd) by the end of this year, the head of South Oil Company (SOC) said yesterday.
