By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. The Iraqi Ministry of Oil (MoO) prepared a complex contract commensurate with the structure and complexity of Nasiriya Integrated Project (NIP), to be offered in a bid round scheduled for December 2013. […]
By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad. Mr Jiyad is an independent development consultant, scholar and Associate with 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 […]
By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Oil, Sustainable Development and the Management of the Transformation in Iraq This contribution is based on PowerPoint presentation delivered before the Symposium “Iraq – 10 Years On” held at Tahrir Campus of […]
By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Iraqi EITI Report 2011: The Need to Act Promptly, Effectively and Properly This contribution was based on PowerPoint presentations I delivered before “EITI Beyond Compliance Report Analysis Workshop” organised by Revenue Watch […]
By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Iraq’s Petroleum Upstream Development and the Challenges of Managing the Plenty Extended Abstract based on PowerPoint presentation delivered before the Natural Resource Charter -NRC Annual Conference “Investing Natural Resource Wealth for Sustainable […]
By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad. On behalf of the Iraqi Government and IEITI, Mr. Alaa Mohie El-Deen, General Secretary of Iraqi Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (IEITI), invited me to attend the EITI Compliance & Second IEITI Report Conference held at Al-Rasheed Hotel on 3 April, and asked me to make a presentation, which took place at […]
By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Iraq upstream petroleum witnessed three unprecedented interrelated developments post-2003: A grand opening to FDI; offering the most prized petroleum fields in a rather short period of time; and, formulation of the basic […]
By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. The Iraqi Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative-IEITI (now called Iraq Revenue Transparency-IRT) issued its second report, entitled “Oil Export and Field Development Revenues in 2010”, on 27 December 2012. The Report was released […]
By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. The following is an extended version of my brief intervention delivered before IEA’ Energy Business Council virtual meeting held in Paris, 19th Oct 2012 on the Agency’s World Energy Outlook Special Report […]
By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad. Since mid-2009 Iraq has been pursuing aggressive strategy to develop the country’s petroleum sector, especially the upstream and midstream subsectors. Such development efforts would, if realized, bring outstanding results for Iraq and the world petroleum market. However, there are huge uncertainties and formidable challenges in the path of such unprecedented expansion. […]
By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad. The basic “model” of the Long Term Service Contract formulated and developed by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil is a distinct and unique among the known regimes governing upstream petroleum. Though the structure of all versions of the basic model are all the same and do have many almost identical “common […]
Our Expert Blogger Ahmed Mousa Jiyad talks to Robert Tollast about Iraq’s energy revolution. RT: The involvement of major US IOC’s such as Exxon and Chevron in Iraqi Kurdistan has sparked a war of words between Baghdad and Erbil. Possibly concerned about a breakdown in relations between the KRG and Baghdad, the US State Department […]
