Petrel Resources has announced its preliminary results for the year ended 31st December 2010: Highlights: The Subba and Luhais oil field development contract in Iraq is virtually completed. Petrel has received all US$7 million due from the sale of the Company's shareholding in Subba and Luhais. Petrel maintains a 10% profit interest. Petrel has applied […]
This work was written by Ahmed Mousa Jiyad, and it is reproduced here with his permission. It was originally published by MEES v54:n23, Monday 6 June 2011. Mr Jiyad is an independent development consultant, scholar and Associate with Centre for Global Energy Studies-CGES, London. He was formerly a senior economist with the Iraq National Oil […]
Shares in Petrel Resources (AIM:PET) jumped 11% this morning following the company's update on its operations in Iraq. The board announced that Petrel has received the final US$2.5m payment due in relation to the Engineering, Procurement and Supervision of Services (EPC) contract on the Subba and Luhais oil field development. The company retains a 10% […]
The fourth round of oil licensing should be postponed, the chairman of the Oil and Energy Parliamentary Committee said on Sunday, according to a report from AKnews. The committee has made a formal request to the Ministry of Oil asking them to delay the awarding of licences. Chairman Adnan al-Janabi, told AKnews that the fact […]
Iraq's Oil Ministry announced on Monday the launch of the fourth round of oil licences for 12 sites in the provinces of Nineveh [Ninawa], Anbar, Diyala, Wasit [Wassit], Basra, Najaf, Muthanna, Qadisiya, and Babil, indicating that the majority of areas include gas and oil. Iraq formally invited international energy firms to compete for these new […]
Iraq has set a deadline of 19th May for international oil companies (IOCs) to register to compete for the fourth oil bidding round, scheduled to be held later this year. Please click here to download the pre-qualification form. According to Dow Jones, Iraq had pre-qualified around 45 international companies for its three bidding rounds held […]
