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Dana Gas Reaches Settlement With RWE

By John Lee. UAE-based Dana Gas has announced that it has reached an “amicable and mutually beneficial settlement agreement” with RWE’s trading unit RWE Suppy & Trading GmbH (RWEST) to resolve a dispute over its operations in Iraqi Kurdistan. The detailed terms of the settlement agreement are to be treated in accordance with the confidentiality […]

Dana Gas, KRG in Spat over Court Ruling

By John Lee. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has reacted angrily to a statement from Sharjah-based Dana Gas. Shares in the company jumped 13.7 percent on the Abu-Dhabi stock exchange on Sunday after the company won a ruling in the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) in its long-running dispute with the KRG in Iraq […]

Dana Remains Committed to Iraq, Despite Claim

By John Lee. Sharjah-based Dana Gas and its consortium partners, Crescent Petroleum and Pearl Petroleum, is pursuing $100 million (117 billion Iraqi dinars) in payments from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). In a statement to the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), the company said: "The LCIA [London Court of International Arbitration] Tribunal recently ordered the […]

Dana Begins Arbitration Proceedings On Kurdish Contract

By Matthew Gayle. According to Iraq Oil Report, the consortium managing the only producing natural gas field in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region is taking the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to court, alleging overdue payments that are likely to total over $2 billion. Dana Gas, a United Arab Emirates fuel producer, began arbitration proceedings in London on rights […]

New College of Education Started in Chamchamal

On Thursday, two Kurdish higher education officials laid the foundation stone of the College of Education in Chamchamal [Chemchemal], 45 km east of the oil rich Kirkuk, 255 km north of Baghdad. The Kurdistan Region’s minister of higher education and scientific research and the president of Sulaimaniya University jointly laid the stone for the $3.4m […]