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IDC Completes Oil Wells in Sth Baghdad and Bazargan

By John Lee. The Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) has successfully completed drilling two oil wells, one in the East Baghdad South field and another in the Bazargan South field (part of the Maysan fields). Deputy General Manager Kazem Habash Khalif stated that the company continues to implement its ambitious plans using advanced drilling techniques while […]

Iraq pushes Chinese Gas Project at Block 9

By John Lee. The Ministry's Deputy Minister for Gas Affairs has inspected the gas project in Block 9 (Al-Fayhaa, Faihaa) in Basra province. Mr. Ezzat Saber said he hoped to utilize 130 million cubic feet per day of gas from the field by year-end, along with equipping power stations to process 100 million cubic feet […]

IDC Completes Oil Well at East Baghdad Field

By John Lee. The Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) has successfully completed the drilling of oil well EBS-64 as part of the contract with the Chinese company Zhenhua, aiming to drill 27 oil wells at the East Baghdad field. The operation, conducted in collaboration with China Oilfield Services Limited (COSL), a division of the China National […]

IDC Completes New Wells at Zubair and Fakka

By John Lee. The Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) has successfully completed the drilling of two oil wells in the Zubair and Fakka [Jabal Fauqi] oil fields. The ZB-608 oil well in the Zubair oil field reached a depth of 3,598 meters using the 1,500-horsepower IDC 38 drilling rig. This is part of the contract with […]

IDC Drills 3,636-Meter Oil Well at East Baghdad Field

By John Lee. The Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) has successfully completed the drilling of the EBSH-54 oil well at the East Baghdad field. The well was drilled to a depth of 3,636 meters, as part of a contract with EBS Petroleum to drill 27 oil wells at the field in collaboration with China Oilfield Services […]

IDC starts Drilling New Oil Wells

By John Lee. The Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) has begun drilling the FQCS-88 oil well at the Fakka oil field in eastern Maysan [Missan] province. The 2,000-horsepower IDC 55 rig is operating as part of a project to drill 22 oil wells for the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). It will drill to a […]

Iraqi PM Doubles Down on Oil Deals with China and Russia

By Simon Watkins for the OilPrice.com. Any opinions expressed are those of the author(s), and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Iraq's New Prime Minister Doubles Down On Oil & Gas Deals With China And Russia It is possible that U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, believed for a moment that […]

China to Study Iraq's Offshore Oil Resources

By John Lee. The Iraqi Oil Exploration Company has signed a contract with China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to study Iraq's offshore oil block in the Gulf. The Undersecretary for Extraction Affairs represented the Oil Minister, Mr. Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail, at the signing ceremony. The General Manager of CNOOC Middle East and Iraq said […]

Chinese Consortium wins $594m Iraq Oil Processing Contract

By John Lee. Kuwait Energy Basra Limited (KE Basra), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong-based United Energy Group (UEG), has entered into the EPCC (engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning) contract with a Chinese consortium to provide a central processing facility including oil treatment system and auxiliary systems at Block 9 in Basra. The contractor […]

How China "Took Control" of Exxon's Iraqi Oilfield

How China Took Control Of Exxon's Supergiant Iraqi Oilfield Recent reports suggest that Chinese oil giants China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) are "considering acquiring" U.S. oil titan ExxonMobil's 32.7 per cent stake in Iraq's supergiant West Qurna 1 oil and gas field. Writing in Oil Price, Simon Watkins […]

Ministry drops Nassiriya Integrated Project

Iraq will rely on a newly formed state oil company to develop the Nassiriya oil field, leaving only the nearby refinery project for investors, ending more than six years of pitching the two as a combined mega-project, according to Iraq Oil Report. Most recently, Iraq had been in direct negotiations with PetroChina and the China […]

China Consolidates Position in Iraqi Petroleum Sector

By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. China and CNPC are Consolidating Further their Positions in Iraq Petroleum Sector Four years after the first bid round took place, some international oil companes (IOCs) are consolidating their positions. while others […]