Iraq Business News brings you the latest information on developments and opportunities in the oil and gas industry in Iraq.
The CEO of Italian oil and gas company Eni, Paolo Scaroni (pictured), said he expects the consortium led by Eni to invest $18 billion in the Zubair oilfield. He added that the group, which includes Occidental Petroleum Corp and South Korea's KOGAS, has already invested 4-5 billion euros in the project. Production at the field is […]
Alderley FZE, a subsidiary of Alderley plc, has recently secured contracts for two crude oil metering systems in Iraq. The contracts for both projects were issued by Petrofac, the international oil and gas facilities service provider, for the new Early Production System (EPS) for the Majnoon field in southern Iraq and for the first phase […]
By John Lee. WesternZagros Resources has successfully completed its testing program in the Eocene reservoir, the second of three target intervals in the Kurdamir-2 exploration well in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The testing proved an oil discovery in the naturally fractured limestones of the Eocene Formation. This adds to the previously announced major discovery […]
By John Lee. WesternZagros Resources has temporarily halted its shares from trading while it prepares a news release with results from the recent casedhole testing of the Eocene Reservoir, the secondary target of the multi-stacked reservoirs drilled by the Kurdamir-2 well in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The release will provide the full context around […]
By John Lee. Sterling Energy has presented today at the 9th Africa Independents Forum 2012, which forms part of the 19th Africa Oil Week conference, an annual event held in Cape Town. The please click on the following pages to see information on the company's operations in Iraqi Kurdistan:
Advertising Feature The Iraq Energy Forum (IEF) will be held in Baghdad, at the Al Rasheed Hotel on 12 December 2012. This is an initiative founded and hosted by the Iraq Energy Institute (IEI), the official advisor to the Federal Parliament of Iraq on energy policies. Iraq Energy Forum is taking place at a time […]
By John Lee. Dana Gas may become the first United Arab Emirates (UAE) company to fail to pay an Islamic bond on maturity, according to a report from Reuters which cites "three sources familiar with the matter". Shares in the UAE's largest listed natural gas firm fell more than 4% on the Abu Dhabi Securites […]
By John Lee. Bad weather on Sunday forced Iraq to cut exports from its southern oilfields from 2.35 million barrels to just 792,000 barrels. Port officials have said that things should start to pick up again on Monday, according to the report from Agenzia Giornalistica Italia. The same thing happened last week when adverse weather […]
By John Lee. The Missan Oil Company has announced the completion of 45 new oil wells in the province as well as the rehabilitation of a number of old wells. The Director General of the Company, Ali M'arij, told AIN that "the Chinese company PetroChina drilled 30 new oil wells and rehabilitated six old ones […]
By John Lee. WorleyParsons has been awarded a $90m contract extension by BP Iraq NV, and its partners PetroChina and Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO), to continue providing engineering, procurement and management services to boost production from the super-giant Rumaila oilfield in Southern Iraq. In November 2009, BP and its partners entered into a […]
By John Lee. Bloomberg reports that Iraq will keep the number of shipments of Basrah Light crude from the Persian Gulf unchanged in November compared to October, but will increase the total volume. According to the loading program, Iraq will ship 46 cargoes from the al-Basrah Oil Terminal (ABOT) (pictured). Exports will total 73.9 million […]
The dispute between Iraq's central government and the Kurdistan Regional Government over oil contracts in northern Iraq has been dragging on for years, but it recent times we've seen developments that push the sides further apart rather than bringing them together. While the short-term issue of payments for shipments from Iraqi Kurdistan appears to have […]
