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As Iraq reports the results of its recent gas auctions, the western province of Anbar is demanding more control over its potentially huge energy reserves, including the vast desert province’s Akkas reservoir. According to Reuters, Anbar’s government last week rejected Baghdad’s plan for the auction due to the possibility that surplus gas will be exported. […]
Dana Gas PJSC, Crescent Petroleum, Mol Nyrt and OMV will produce 300 million cubic feet a day of gas from its project in Iraq’s Kurdistan region in 2012, a year later than expected. The production rate is currently 200 million cubic feet a day, Dana Gas said in a statement today. The production rate was […]
An initial agreement has been reached with a Russian company to invest in gas produced from the Missan oilfields, the Chairman of the local council’s energy committee said on Tuesday. “The agreement will help to increase the revenues allocated to the province, and to meet the local demand, in addition to using the gas produced […]
The Iraqi cabinet has delayed finalising a multibillion-dollar deal with Anglo-Dutch giant Royal Dutch Shell and Japan's Mitsubishi to capture gas from Basra's oilfields because of legal issues related to the joint venture, AKnews reports. The cabinet already approved the planned $12 billion investment in June, but it is now waiting to sign the final […]
Rumours of a delay in Iraq's gas auction have proved to be true, with companies being given an additional three weeks to consider their response to the new contract terms. Both AKnews and MEED report that the new deadline for submissions is extended from 1st October to 20th October. AKnews suggests that as many as […]
Gas companies bidding to develop three Iraqi gas fields (Mansouriya, Akkas, and Siba) have had the terms of the deal clarified. Reuters reports that the companies will not have to develop export facilities or pipelines, and that the Oil Ministry will pay the companies anyway so long as they have done the required work (even […]
Baghdad has increased the stakes in the row that has flared up over the new German/Kurdish gas contract. Last week we reported on the dispute relating to KRG's agreement with German energy giant RWE. Now AKnews reports that the Iraqi oil ministry said last week that it will cut Kurdistan’s fuel share in half as […]
The German government has refused to be drawn into the row over RWE's new gas agreement with the Kustdistan Regional Government. The Iraqi oil ministry has said the agreement is illegal because the country's oil and gas are federal resources to be administered centrally. Asked about the dispute, a spokesman for the German economy ministry […]
We reported yesterday on the new gas deal between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the German giant RWE. Today, a new row has broken out between Erbil and Baghdad regarding the legality of Kurdish oil and gas contracts. Aswat al-Iraq reports that the Iraqi Oil Ministry, through the State Organization for Marketing Oil (SOMO), claimed […]
Iraq, site of the world’s third-largest oil reserves, will hold a third bidding round for gas fields which will take place on October 1, an Oil Ministry official has confirmed, according to a report from Bloomberg. “Definitive model contracts and final tender protocols will be ready on September 10, and the bidding process will be […]
A senior official at Shell said that Iraq is losing $50 dollars per second, more than $4 million a day, as a result of flaring the gas associated with oil production in the province of Basra. The company's Vice-President for the Middle East and North Africa, Mounir Bouaziz, reportedly said his company was currently awaiting […]
Iraq on Thursday invited international energy firms to submit bids for a September 1 auction of three of its gas fields
