Iraq Business News brings you the latest information on developments and opportunities in the oil and gas industry in Iraq.
By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad. Midyear Review of the State Budget and Oil Export Revenues The State budget for 2015 was based on an oil export volume of 3.3 million barrels per day (mbd) and a price of $56 a barrel. Accordingly, oil export revenues were estimated to finance 83% of budget revenues. Despite marked improvement […]
By John Lee. The agreement between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the Iraqi central government agreement on budget and oil exports looks set to collapse. Kurdish MP Ardalan Nouraddin told BasNews that a new agreement will be signed, adding, “the details are yet to be revealed.” Under the December agreement, the KRG was to […]
By John Lee. Oil firms expecting to load Kirkuk crude at the Turkish port of Ceyhan have had to cancel tankers, as the Kurdistan Regional Government ramps up independent oil sales at the expense of sales through the State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO). According to a report from Reuters, tanker cancellations included Eni’s Seanostrum, Socar’s […]
By John Lee. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has reacted angrily to a statement from Sharjah-based Dana Gas. Shares in the company jumped 13.7 percent on the Abu-Dhabi stock exchange on Sunday after the company won a ruling in the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) in its long-running dispute with the KRG in Iraq […]
By John Lee. The Kurdistan Region of Iraq has slashed its transfers of oil to the State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO). According to the monthly report issued by the KRG's Ministry of Natural Resources, the region supplied SOMO in Ceyhan with 149,778 barrels per day (bpd) in June, a drop of almost two thirds from […]
By John Lee. Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP) has announced that three of the company's Non-Executive Directors are to quit their positions. V Uthaya Kumar has resigned from the Board on 2 July 2015, while Dr. Joseph Stanislaw and Maria Darby-Walker have decided to not seek re-appointment and will retire from the Board on the day […]
The Kurdistan Regional Government has published its Monthly Export Report for June 2015. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) exported 17,130,639 barrels of crude oil (an average of 571,021 barrels per day (bpd)) in the month of June through the Kurdistan pipeline network to the port of Ceyhan in Turkey. Of this amount, fields operated by […]
June oil exports from Iraq hit a record average of 3.187 million bpd, up from 3.145 million bpd in May. An average of 3.02 million bpd was exported from the Southern terminals (up from 2.69 million bpd in May), with exports via Ceyhan averaging just 164,700 bpd (down from 451,000 bpd in May). Southern exports were helped by the splitting of output […]
By John Lee. China's Anton Oilfield Services Group (Antonoil) has announced that it has won a bid for what it describes as "the provision of three well's workover and other services in middle Iraq". As the chief contractor for the project operated by an international oil company, Anton is commissioned to provide a series of […]
By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad. Oil Export Revenue Distribution Issues in Iraq This is part two of a research work commissioned by the Natural Resource Governance Institute-NRGI (USA) as part of the preparation for NRGI’s strategic plan for interlinked and complementary interventions in Iraq during the upcoming three years. The Executive Summary of the study was […]
By John Lee. Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP), the operator of the Shaikan field in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, confirmed on Monday that it continues to produce in excess of 40,000 barrels of oil per day following the successful completion of 'de-bottlenecking' (sic) operations at PF-1. According to a statement this morning, as a result of the continuing […]
By Simon Kent. Lukoil, the Russian energy giant with one of the biggest investments in southern Iraq at the vast West Qurna 2 oil field, have issued a statement in support of Iraq's move to split crude grades into Basra Heavy and Basra Light. Previously, different grades arrived at Basra for blending, which not only […]
