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The Kurdistan Regional Government has announced plans to start paying oil companies a proportion of the revenues from crude oil sales. Starting from September 2015, the Kurdistan Regional Government, KRG, will, on a monthly basis, allocate a portion of the revenue from its direct crude oil sales to the producing international oil companies, IOCs, KRG […]
By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad. Assessing Government Spending This is an updated version of the last part (and the list of consulted references) of the 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 […]
WesternZagros Resources has issued an update in advance of the company's standard second quarter results which are scheduled for release on 13th August, 2015: Garmian Block Second quarter production from the Sarqala-1 well averaged 5,427 barrels of oil per day ("bbl/d). WesternZagros continues, in accordance with the KRG, to supply this production to the domestic […]
Statement by KRG's Ministry of Natural Resources on attacks on the Kurdistan to Ceyhan oil export pipelines in Turkey Since July 27th, there have been repeated attempted thefts and sabotage attacks on the pipelines that carry crude oil from the Kurdistan Region to Ceyhan (pictured) in Turkey. This has led to an almost complete stoppage […]
By John Lee. Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP), the operator of the Shaikan field in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, has announced that all production and truck loading operations currently continue without interruption at both Shaikan production facilities (PF-1 and PF-2) in a safe and secure manner. On 29 July 2015, production totalled 43,700 barrels with […]
By John Lee. London-listed oil explorer Afren has been forced into administration. Crisis management consultants from AlixPartners were brought in after the company failed to find financial backers to meet a growing cash crisis. In a statement to the markets, the company said: “The board believes that all the possible routes have now been explored […]
DNO ASA, the Norwegian oil and gas operator, announced that production from its flagship Tawke field in the Kurdistan region of Iraq continued uninterrupted during this week's shut down of the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline in Turkey, given the flexibility to redirect volumes from exports to local sales. Prior to the pipeline disruption, Tawke production in the […]
By John Lee. In a statement to the company's Annual General Meeting in Dublin on Wednesday, the Chairman of Petrel Resources, John Teeling, said that there is "virtually no activity" at the company's interests in Iraq. "The Block 6 acreage in Anbar province is a no-go area. There remains a belief that the authorities in […]
By Mohammed A. Salih for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Erbil-Baghdad Oil Relations Swing between Deal, no Deal Encouraged by more international interest in purchasing its oil, coupled with the apparent failure of the federal Iraqi government to provide agreed-upon […]
By Waleed Kamhieh, Accenture oil and gas consultant. This is an extract from an article originally published by Nina Iraq, and is reproduced here with permission. In June 2015, Iraq produced an average of 3.19 mm bbpd (million barrels per day), the highest level of production since 1980, and it has surpassed the 2.8 mm bbpd […]
By John Lee. Turkey's energy ministry has confirmed that the smaller of the two parallel pipelines from Kirkuk to Ceyhan (pictured) was sabotaged early on Wednesday in the district of Cizre in Turkey. Only the 40-inch line was operational at the time of the attack, with the parallel 46-inch line currently idled. Crude oil exports […]
By John Lee. Iraq's Electricity Minister, Qassem Fahdawi [Qassim al-Fahdawi] (pictured), has reportedly said that his ministry is looking to invest in solar energy projects, in an attempt to solve the continuing shortage of electricity. He said the country produces only about 11,000 MW of power, but needs 21,000 MW. According to Kuwait's KUNA news […]
