Iraq Business News brings you the latest information on developments and opportunities in the oil and gas industry in Iraq.
Shares in DNO ASA, the Norwegian oil and gas operator, were trading up 5 percent on Thursday morning after the company announced expanded investments, including doubling of planned 2017 wells at the Tawke field in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, on the back of strong first quarter results. The Company reported quarterly net profit of […]
By John Lee. Kuwait Energy has announced that it intends to proceed with an initial public offering (IPO), and to list on the main market of the London Stock Exchange (LSE). In a statement to the markets this morning, the company said it expected to raise gross primary proceeds of approximately $150 million from the […]
By John Lee. Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) and Russia's Litasco — Lukoil‘s international marketing and trading arm — have set up a joint oil trading company in Dubai. A source told Reuters that the new venture, LIMA Energy, is building a team to work at the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) to trade […]
Vikas Handa is joining the Iraq Britain Business Council (IBBC) as the UAE Representative to run the IBBC office in Dubai and will be responsible for the overall outreach in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region. Many IBBC members will know Vikas, who previously headed Weir Oil & Gas operations in the Eastern […]
By John Lee. The Head of the Missan Oil Company (MOC) has said that the third and final phase of work to expand the Halfaya oil field has been launched. Adnan Noshi told Reuters that the target is to double Halfaya's capacity to 400,000 barrels per day in 2018. He said Halfaya, operated by PetroChina, […]
Petrofac has secured a series of contract awards worth more than US$70 million for engineering, operations and maintenance services in Iraq. Petrofac’s Engineering and Production Services’ (EPS) East business secured the awards during the first quarter of 2017 with two major International Oil Companies and the South Oil Company (SOC). Petrofac has been providing services […]
By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. The New INOC Law: Brief and Dysfunctional The Cabinet approved, on 23 March 2017, the new law for the Iraqi National Oil Company (INOC) and passed it to the Parliament/House of Representatives […]
Genel Energy has announced that Stephen Whyte has been appointed as an independent non-executive director and Chairman designate with immediate effect. Tony Hayward (pictured) will retire as a Director and Chairman of the Company at the conclusion of the 2017 AGM, to be held on 6 June 2017, at which point Stephen Whyte will take […]
By John Lee. Basra oil terminal, which was damaged by a tanker collision last month, is reported to have been successfully repaired on Sunday. Officials at the South Oil Company (SOC) told Reuters that a one-million-barrel tanker was loading light crude at the terminal on Monday. Total crude oil exports had not been affected by […]
By John Lee. A former chairman of the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) has been fined $50,000 and banned from a managing a corporation for five years for failing to properly investigate $223 million in kickbacks paid to Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. But according to a report from ABC News, Trevor Flugge's reputation for honesty […]
By John Lee. Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP) has confirmed that a gross payment of $15.0 million ($12.0 million net to GKP) has been received from the Kurdistan Regional Government ("KRG") for Shaikan crude oil export sales in January 2017. (Source: GKP)
Russia's LUKOIL has reported that it has completed a field 3D seismic survey at West Qurna-2 field. The survey covered an area of about 450 square kilometers. The Company has fulfilled all of its contractual obligations to the Ministry of Oil of Iraq. The high-quality seismic data obtained are required for the updating of the […]
