By John Lee. Iraq's Petroleum Contracts and Licensing Directorate, part of the Ministry of Oil, has announced that it is working on the launch of the country's 5th energy licensing round. This round of bidding will relate to gas prospects only, with the PCLD saying it will: Choose the exploratory areas that have high and promising […]
Lord Howell of Guildford, UK Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, speaking at CWC‘s Iraq Petroleum 2012 conference in London, said the terms of offer for the next round of energy licences must be considerably better than those for the fourth round which concluded at the end of May. "The results of […]
Bloomberg reports that Iraq is to offer more attractive terms in its next auction of exploration rights for natural gas. Oil Minister Abdul Kareem al-Luaibi [Elaibi] (pictured), told the agency in an interview: “Bidding will be next year, but we will start now to prepare the data package, and we will hold a roadshow for […]
Nearly a week has passed since the finalisation of Iraq's fourth round of oil licences, this time relating to oil and gas exploration blocks. In the meantime, the debate has rumbled on regarding the results of the auction, with some regarding it as a success and others as a failure. Among the professionals, the consensus […]
Following the allocation of only three of the 12 exploration fields on offer in Iraq's 4th round energy auction, the Oil Ministry plans to go ahead with a 5th round auction for more sites. “Of course, we will prepare for a fifth round, and we have more than 60 blocks ready for bidding,” Oil Minister […]
