Iraq Business News brings you the latest information on developments and opportunities in the oil and gas industry in Iraq.
An initial agreement between Iraq and Syria to build a pipeline to the Mediterranean envisions one crude pipeline with a capacity of 1.5 million barrels per day and another with a capacity of 1.25m bpd, an Iraqi government spokesman said yesterday. Ali Al Dabbagh said that the larger of the two pipelines would carry heavier […]
Rumours of a delay in Iraq's gas auction have proved to be true, with companies being given an additional three weeks to consider their response to the new contract terms. Both AKnews and MEED report that the new deadline for submissions is extended from 1st October to 20th October. AKnews suggests that as many as […]
Shares in Sterling Energy (LSE: SEY), the AIM-listed oil & gas company with interests Iraqi Kurdistan, fell 40% in early trading this morning following an update on its activities at Sangaw North: Sangaw North #1 Exploration Well The exploration well has been drilled to an intermediate depth of 2,395m and open-hole wire-line log data acquired […]
Rosneft, reportedly Russia's biggest oil producer, is discussing projects in Iraq, its newly appointed president said on Friday. "We are discussing," Eduard Khudainatov told reporters on at the Sochi economic forum, without going into further details. The company is planning for continued growth, and intends to hire of world-class specialists; it is expected to announce […]
Russia's Lukoil has awarded a mine clearing contract at Iraq's West Qurna 2 oil field to G4S Risk Management, a division of the London-based G4S Ordnance Management, Lukoil said in a statement sent to Dow Jones Newswires. Lukoil did not disclose the value of the contract, but said work should finish in early 2011, when […]
Spanish equipment rental company GAM (General de Alquiler de Maquinaria) has announced a major investment to enter the Iraqi market. Chief Operating Officer, Carlos Araoz, told IRN that the new depot in Erbil would be part funded using $20 million from an American source. "In Iraq I will not have Loxam or Lavendon competing with […]
Iraqi Kurds have not delivered on promises to ship 100,000 barrels of oil a day to the outside world through Iraqi national pipeline network, the Oil Ministry has said, according to Azzaman News Agency. “The Ministry of Natural Resources in the (Kurdish) region has exhibited no sign of cooperation so far. It has not supplied […]
Syria's Oil Minister Sufian Alao [Sufian Allaw] has met representatives of Chinese companies in Beijing to discuss the long-delayed refinery project that could help save Syria billions of dollars in fuel imports. The refinery could eventually take oil from Iraq, if political differences between Syria and Iraq that have delayed plans to re-activate an oil […]
Iraq plans to increase oil exports to Asia, especially India and China, the State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) Director General Falah al-Amri said in Baghdad. “Europe is an old market, and it has made plans to diversify away from oil to cleaner alternatives,” Amri said in a speech marking the 50th anniversary of the Organization […]
The Iraqi Oil Ministry is seeking to open more border crossings to make it easier for foreign firms to bring their oil equipment to Iraq. “Foreign firms working on boosting Iraq’s oil production submitted a request to the Kuwaiti authorities to open a border crossing so that they can bring their equipment into Iraq,” a […]
A Belgian dredger has arrived at Umm Qasr on Wednesday to work on increasing the depth of the shipping channel. The vessel is the 18,620 tonne trailing suction hopper dredger, the 'Francis Beaufort'. It is 142m in length, and has a maximum dredging depth of 71.5m. The report from AKnews says the project was facilitated […]
Gas companies bidding to develop three Iraqi gas fields (Mansouriya, Akkas, and Siba) have had the terms of the deal clarified. Reuters reports that the companies will not have to develop export facilities or pipelines, and that the Oil Ministry will pay the companies anyway so long as they have done the required work (even […]
