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Supported by the Kurdistan Regional Government, the Iraqi Government and the Ministry of Natural Resources – Kurdistan, Kurdistan-Iraq Oil & Gas will take place in Erbil on the 13-15 November 2011. The summit will be opened by H.E. Dr Barahm Salih, Prime Minister of Kurdistan and H.E. Dr Ashti Hawrami, Minister of Natural resources as […]
A refinery with a capacity of 150,000 barrels per day will be constructed by the Egyptian Qalaa Company in Nineveh province. In a statement, Deputy Oil Minister Ahmed Shamaa said the Ministry of Oil has contracted Qalaa to establish the refinery which will process the crude oil from the Najma and Gayar fields near Mosul. […]
An Amman-based freight company has won a tender to transport 30,000 metric tons of fuel oil per month from Iraq to Jordan, the nation’s official news agency Petra said. Bloomberg reports that the company is called 'Mahmoud Al Zoubi for Transport', and that it will charge 37.3 Jordanian dinars ($52.65) per ton, which was the […]
Iraq's oil ministry has issued a list of the 41 companies qualified to participate in its fourth energy bidding round in January: ATPECO - Japan Bashneft - Russia BP - UK Chevron Corp - United States CNOOC - China CNPC - China Edison - Italy Egyptian General Petroleum Corp - Egypt Eni Iraq - Italy […]
Iraq's oil exports for July fell compared to the previous month in volume terms, but revenues rose as average crude prices increased, the oil ministry said on Monday. AFP reports that Iraq exported 67.2 million barrels in July, down from 68.2 million barrels in June Revenues were up, at $7.311 billion, compared to $7.173 billion […]
Iraq's Energy Commission announced on Monday that it has decided to postpone its meeting to discuss the Shell gas contract until next week, further delaying the long-overdue signing. AKnews reports that the commission, headed by Deputy Prime Minister Hussein al-Shahristani, announced last Wednesday that it would discuss the contract to develop and exploit the gas […]
The Kurdistan Regional Government's representation in Washington has launched Invest in Democracy, the KRG's official 2011- 2012 investment guide which outlines the buisness opportunities and investment climate for international companies in the region. The investment guide includes forewords by President Masoud Barzani, Prime Minister Barham Salih, as well as British Foreign Secretary William Hague, US […]
In its interim results for the first half of 2011, oil services company Petrofac gave the following update on its operations at Shell's Majnoon oilfield: "In March 2011, we announced the award of our first contract in Iraq, a US$240 million engineering, procurement and construction management project with Shell. The Majnoon field in southern Iraq […]
Fars News Agency reports that a senior Iranian oil official has announced that the country has worked out an agreement with Iraq to develop joint oil fields along the countries' shared border. The Managing Director of the Iranian Central Oil Fields Company (ICOFC) Mehdi Fakour added, "We are waiting for the Iraqis to be prepared […]
The following article was published by Reidar Visser, an historian of Iraq educated at the University of Oxford and currently based at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. […]
On Wednesday 17 August 2011 the Iraqi parliament began the first reading of a new version of oil law proposed by the oil and energy committee-OGC of the parliament itself. The timing and the procedure of the debate created confusion and prompted significant walkout of many parliamentarians members of influential political groups. The debate was […]
Due to the lack of investment in developing Iraq’s oil sector during the old regime, pipelines lack capacity and are corroded, ports need redeveloping, refineries need to be upgraded to increase supply, mines cleared, power supply is irregular and an increase in water supply is crucial. Iraq has the fourth largest oil reserves in the […]
