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By John Lee. Iraq's oil exports in 2014 accounted for 95.5 percent of the country's total revenue from exports, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Planning's Central Bureau of Statistics. A total of 918 million barrels of oil were exported over the year, up 5.3 percent on the 872 million barrels shipped in […]
By John Lee. According to a report from Platts, 9 of the 14 tankers intending to load oil from Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) at the Turkish port of Ceyhan in June, have had their orders cancelled and have left the area. The remaining five are also cancelled but are still waiting, as they […]
By John Lee. Genel Energy has issued the following trading and operations update in advance of the Company's half-year 2015 results, which are scheduled for release on 6 August 2015. Tony Hayward, newly-appointed Chairman of Genel, said: "Production has grown rapidly in the first half of the year, increasing 41% year on year, with operational […]
By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad. Midyear Review of the State Budget and Oil Export Revenues The State budget for 2015 was based on an oil export volume of 3.3 million barrels per day (mbd) and a price of $56 a barrel. Accordingly, oil export revenues were estimated to finance 83% of budget revenues. Despite marked improvement […]
By John Lee. The agreement between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the Iraqi central government agreement on budget and oil exports looks set to collapse. Kurdish MP Ardalan Nouraddin told BasNews that a new agreement will be signed, adding, “the details are yet to be revealed.” Under the December agreement, the KRG was to […]
By John Lee. Oil firms expecting to load Kirkuk crude at the Turkish port of Ceyhan have had to cancel tankers, as the Kurdistan Regional Government ramps up independent oil sales at the expense of sales through the State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO). According to a report from Reuters, tanker cancellations included Eni’s Seanostrum, Socar’s […]
By John Lee. The Kurdistan Region of Iraq has slashed its transfers of oil to the State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO). According to the monthly report issued by the KRG's Ministry of Natural Resources, the region supplied SOMO in Ceyhan with 149,778 barrels per day (bpd) in June, a drop of almost two thirds from […]
The Kurdistan Regional Government has published its Monthly Export Report for June 2015. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) exported 17,130,639 barrels of crude oil (an average of 571,021 barrels per day (bpd)) in the month of June through the Kurdistan pipeline network to the port of Ceyhan in Turkey. Of this amount, fields operated by […]
June oil exports from Iraq hit a record average of 3.187 million bpd, up from 3.145 million bpd in May. An average of 3.02 million bpd was exported from the Southern terminals (up from 2.69 million bpd in May), with exports via Ceyhan averaging just 164,700 bpd (down from 451,000 bpd in May). Southern exports were helped by the splitting of output […]
By Simon Kent. Lukoil, the Russian energy giant with one of the biggest investments in southern Iraq at the vast West Qurna 2 oil field, have issued a statement in support of Iraq's move to split crude grades into Basra Heavy and Basra Light. Previously, different grades arrived at Basra for blending, which not only […]
By Simon Kent. Sources at Ceyhan have told Reuters that there is insufficient oil in the Iraqi State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) tanks at the port to fill planned cargoes. Both BP and Spain's Cepsa have cancelled shipments, and no oil has gone to SOMO storage for the past ten days. According to sources, this […]
The Kurdistan Region Council for Oil and Gas Affairs met on Wednesday with the five political parties of the Kurdistan Regional Government, KRG. Recent developments regarding oil and budget issues between the KRG and the Iraq Federal Government were discussed. It was reaffirmed that the KRG has been abiding by the December agreement with Baghdad […]
