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Gas Fields Bidding - Iraq Readies Contracts

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 […]

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$4m of Gas Wasted Daily in Basra

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 […]

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Minister Opens Al-Rasheed, Al-Dibs Gas Stations

Kareem Waheed, minister of Electricity has inaugurated  the reopening of Al-Rasheed, Al-Dibs gas stations which will supply about 65 mega watts of power to Kerkok province. A statement showed that these two stations were working in the 80's and had stopped. Today, their production is 31 mega watts. The project will be managed by an […]

Exxon Mobil, Shell Take a Calculated Risk

A consortium led by Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell on 25 January signed a contract with the Iraqi government to redevelop and expand the West Qurna field – one of Iraq’s biggest oil fields. The Exxon team said it would boost production at the field to 2.325 million barrels a day, up from just […]

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