Iraq Business News brings you the latest information on developments and opportunities in the oil and gas industry in Iraq.
Iraq's crude exports in June averaged 1.9 million barrels per day, the same level as the previous month, the head of the State Oil Marketing Organisation said. Average exports from the southern oil hub of Basra reached 1.45 million bpd while exports from oilfields in the north around Kirkuk averaged 450,000 bpd, SOMO head Falah […]
WesternZagros Resources Ltd has successfully retrieved the upper 450 metres portion of the parted drill string at the Kurdamir-1 well. Following thorough testing of the blow-out preventers, snubbing operations are now underway to recover the remaining 2,400 metres of drill string. This operation is expected to take approximately 20 days. Total costs of Kurdamir-1 to […]
The Kurdistan Regional Government is preparing to export natural gas to Europe via Turkey and the Nabucco project, Turkish Hurriyet Daily News said on Tuesday. “After failing to agree with the central government in Baghdad over the sale of oil and gas, northern Iraq’s administration is now preparing to export natural gas to Europe via […]
Shell and its Iraqi state partner are in the process of awarding a deal to drill new oil wells at the super giant Majnoon oil field in southern Iraq, the head of Iraq's state-run South Oil Co., Dhiaa Jaafar, said on Tuesday. Dow Jones reports that Shell, which partnered Malaysia's state-run Petronas to develop Majnoon, […]
"The Iraqi Oil ministry is applying environmental safety standards in all refineries and it will stop using all substances that are harmful to health and the environment by finding alternatives," the spokesman of the Iraqi oil ministry said on Tuesday. "The Oil Ministry is implementing all requirements for environmental safety in Iraqi refineries, and the […]
According to a report from Bloomberg, OAO Lukoil, Russia’s largest non- state oil producer, allocated $5 billion to finance the West Qurna-2 project in Iraq. The funds were provided as a loan to its Lukoil Mid-East Ltd. unit exclusively for the Iraq project, spokesman Dmitry Dolgov said. The loan matures at the end of 2030, […]
The Iraqi Navy is on track to assume full command of protecting Iraq's vital offshore platforms within the next two years, outgoing US Navy 5th Fleet commander, Vice Admiral Bill Gortney said Monday. 'We are working very closely with the Iraqi Navy and within two years we will be ready to turn over the entire […]
Further to our report yesterday on the attack on the Kirkuk-Ceyhan Pipeline, Israel National News reports that oil started to flow again on Monday. A bomb, reportedly planted by Kurdish resistance fighters, had temporarily halted pumping on the Kirkuk to Ceyhan pipeline at the weekend. The bombing by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) added a […]
China's Xinhua News Agency is so far the only source to report on Iraq's new five-year National Development Plan (NDP), announced on Sunday. The plan targets annual economic growth of 9.4 percent and attempts to cut unemployment. The country's 2010-2014 NDP was announced in a televised event in Baghdad attended by top Iraqi officials, including […]
Turkish security sources said the flow of oil on Iraq's pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan was still halted on Sunday night after a bomb blast blamed on suspected Kurdish separatist rebels the previous evening, according to a report from Reuters. AFP reports that a blast late Saturday ripped through a section of the […]
The Iraqi Industry Ministry has finalized the project to rehabilitate the al-Fatiha Bridge in Baiji (Bayji), north of Tikrit city. “This bridge is considered one of the biggest, most important bridges in Iraq, because it links the two provinces of Salah al-Din and Kirkuk,” the ministry said in a statement on Sunday, received by Aswat […]
Further to the gas deal signed with Shell and Mitsubishi (see our report here), BusinessWeek reports an Iraqi government spokesman as saying that gas output will probably exceed the nation’s domestic demand for power generation by 2015 or 2016, allowing the country to export gas in liquid form. Natural gas is produced as a by-product […]
