By John Lee. Firefighting and safety teams from the Midland Oil Company have assisted in extinguishing a fire at a private asphalt plant east of Baghdad. The incident occurred around four kilometres from the S2 site within the East Baghdad oil field, southern area, in the Kargouliya district. The company's teams responded as part of […]
By John Lee. Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani has inaugurated a 50-megawatt self-generation power station at the North Refinery in Salahuddin, designed to ensure uninterrupted electricity supply for refinery operations and reduce dependency on the national grid. The Prime Minister praised the efforts of the staff at the power station and the North Refineries Company […]
By John Lee. Iraq's Cabinet has revised the sale price of asphalt to 450,000 dinars [$343] per ton, up from 350,000 dinars, applicable equally to both public and private sectors. Asphalt from the Qayyarah refinery will remain at 300,000 dinars per ton for all types, with pricing to be reviewed in four months. An 80-percent […]
By John Lee. A factory in Erbil is recycling road materials, specifically asphalt, to reuse them for road maintenance and construction, according to a statement from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). It says this project, run by public sector employees, is one of the most modern asphalt recycling facilities, with a daily production capacity of […]
By John Lee. The Director of the General Company for Transportation Projects, Mr. Karim Hashem Al-Jabri, held a meeting on Saturday with the Economic Feasibility Study Committee and the Quantities Preparation Committee for the establishment of an asphalt production plant in Baghdad. In line with the directives of the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Razak Mahayb […]
By John Lee. An Iraqi court has sentenced Riyadh Abdul Hamza Abdul Razaq, ex-Minister of Municipalities and Labour, and Hashem Abdul Zahra Aziz, a director of the Ministry, to two years in prison in relation to a "breach of contract" in the supply and installation of 17 asphalt factories. The contract, signed in 2007, was […]
By John Lee. Canadian independent oil company Blue Sky Energy Inc. has announced that it has commissioned an independent resource evaluation report that summarizes and updates resource volumes on its first prospect, the North Salah ad Din field, which it describes as "a historical discovery within its license area recently acquired in Iraq". According to […]
Blue Sky Energy Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BSI) has acquired from Sonoro Energy International Holdings BV, 100% of the issued and outstanding common shares of Sonoro Energy Iraq B.V. ("Sonoro Iraq"), a company incorporated in the Netherlands and the designated operator and party to several license agreements with the Al-Salah ad Din Provincial Government of Iraq for […]
By John Lee. Sonoro Energy Ltd. has announced that the Company has changed its strategy of making significant use of advisory and consulting services in Iraq to primarily utilizing its own established network. With this change, the Company has terminated its advisory and consulting agreement with Amira Management B.V. (an entity with the same principals […]
By John Lee. Richard Wadsworth, CEO of Sonoro Energy, talks to Proactive Investors at the Oil Council World Assembly. He says the company's licence area in the Salah ad Din Province in Northern Iraq is in a "very prolific, attractive" basin: (Source: Proactive Investors)
Sonoro Energy recently announced the following operational and corporate updates. Drilling Rig As previously announced on June 12, 2012, Sonoro and its partners entered into an agreement to establish a joint venture company ("JV Co") and purchase a 750 HP drilling rig, subject to certain conditions including a final satisfactory rig inspection. JV Co has […]
Sonoro Energy has announce that the company, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, has entered into an agreement to purchase a drilling rig for their planned asphalt operations in Salah ad Din Province. The drilling rig will be transferred to a joint venture company ("JV Co"), to be established by Sonoro and its partners, Berkeley Petroleum Mesopotamia […]
