The following article was published on Monday by Reidar Visser, an historian of Iraq educated at the University of Oxford and currently based at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq […]
The Kurdistan-Iraq Oil and Gas Conference in Erbil heard confirmation that the Kurdistan Regional Government has signed an oil exploration contract with ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil company. Ashti Hawrami, the minister for natural resources, told the conference that the KRG had signed a contract with ExxonMobil and that the federal government was kept informed […]
Following the confirmation that ExxonMobil will be exploring six blocks in Iraqi Kurdistan, oil major Chevron is said to be in talks with the Kurdish government to begin exploration activity in the region. KRG’s natural resources minister Ashti Awrami revealed that his government was in talks with 3 major oil companies to begin exploration in […]
Another leader of Genel Energy has stated his opinion that Norway's DNO is a possible takeover target. "DNO is our natural partner so it makes a lot of sense if we can take them into Genel," Mehmet Sepil, CEO of Genel Enerji, told Reuters. Genel Energy, formed by the combination of Vallares Plc and Turkey's […]
The fallout from the agreement between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and ExxonMobil to explore six blocks in Kurdistan continues to be felt. According to a report on Friday by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the U.S. government-funded news outlet, Iraq’s central government said it had settled the oil dispute with the KRG with an agreement […]
By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. The news of ExxonMobil’s venture by signing 6-blocks PSCs with KRG could have very serious ramifications as the move is rather puzzling, it occurred and became known at critical time, and consequently […]
An adviser to the Resources Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) confirmed on Friday that ExxonMobil has signed agreements to explore for oil and gas in six blocks in Iraqi Kurdistan, according to Dow Jones. This is big news, as the Baghdad government has previously excluded companies operating in the Kurdish region from oil contracts […]
Dow Jones reports that Iraq has agreed with oil majors to build a multi-billion-dollar oil field water injection plant in the south of the country, after disagreement over costs that suspended the project for months. The water injection project aims to provide water to maintain reservoir pressure to fields such as Rumaila, West Qurna Phase […]
Output at the West Qurna oil field in Basra has increased by 26% since March, reaching 347,000 barrels per day (bpd), according to AKnews. Madi Abdul-Razzaq, director of the operations committee said: "We have a number of new projects to increase production to 400,000 bpd by the end of 2011. The increased production in West […]
ExxonMobil Iraq Limited is contributing 1.2 billion Iraqi dinar (US$1 million) to equip petroleum engineering laboratories at the University of Basrah to be used by students seeking careers in Iraq's oil and gas industry. This grant will also fund faculty and curriculum development under which some 46,000 students are expected to study over the next […]
Iraq's South Oil Company said on Tuesday that productivity at the West Qurna-1 oil field increased to 300,000 barrels per day, and stressed that the productivity of the field will rise at the end of the current year to 400,000 barrels per day. ExxonMobil, which along with Shell has the contract to develop West Qurna […]
Halliburton has been awarded a contract by ExxonMobil Iraq Limited (EMIL) to provide drilling services for 15 wells in the West Qurna (Phase I) oil field located in Southern Iraq. Halliburton will provide a complete range of well construction services utilizing three drilling rigs to safely deliver the wells. Joe Rainey, president of Halliburton's Eastern […]
