Excalibur is suing Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP) over Kurdistan's 11-billion-barrel Shaikan oil field in a vigorously-contested lawsuit. The company had a "collaboration agreement" with Texas Keystone, a private company owned by GKP's chairman Todd Kozel and his brothers, giving it 30pc of fields won in any joint bids. According to London's Telegraph, Excalibur, which introduced […]
Gulf Keystone has announced that it plans to sell a stake in one of its oil blocks in Iraqi Kurdistan. In its half-year operational review, the company said it would seek a buyer for its 20 percent interest in the Akri-Bijeel block, which is estimated to hold around 2.4 billion barrels of oil, and which […]
Gulf Keystone provided an update on its ongoing exploration and appraisal programme for the Shaikan block in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on Monday: Shaikan is a major discovery with independently audited gross oil-in-place volumes of between 4.9 billion barrels to 10.8 billion barrels calculated on the P90 to P10 basis with a mean value […]
Shares in Gulf Keystone Petroleum (LSE: GKP) gained 4% this morning following the commencement of drilling at the Shaikan-2 appraisal well. The text of the company's announcement follows: Gulf Keystone announces the commencement of drilling operations on its Shaikan-2 appraisal well, on December 1, 2010. This is the first deep appraisal well to be drilled […]
Bijeel-1 Discovery Well Update Gulf Keystone notes the announcement made today by MOL Hungarian Oil & Gas Plc regarding the successful end of testing of the Bijeel-1 discovery well, in which Gulf Keystone holds a 20% Working Interest. Highlights: The cased hole test, performed at a depth of 3,804 - 3,967 meters in the Jurassic […]
Shares in Gulf Keystone Petroleum (LSE: GKP) jumped 6.5% on Monday morning following an update on theie current exploration and testing activities in the Kurdistan region of Iraq: Shaikan-3 The well is currently in the Cretaceous Garagu Formation at 1,229 metres, measured depth. Oil shows have been observed both while drilling and also in a […]
