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LUKoil, plans to drill the first exploration well at the West Qurna-2 oil field in Iraq, LUKoil CEO Vagit Alekperov said on Wednesday. "We'll start drilling the first exploration well at the end of the year"
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is alleged to have received cash from a Korean oil firm run by a former bribery convict for advice on Iraq's oil-rich Kurdistan, according to news reports in Korea. It had been kept secret for nearly 20 months before it was revealed last week. Blair, who has been accused […]
While much of the rest of the world is still taking tentative steps forward in its recovery from a global economic crisis, some industries and regions are already making strides in the right direction. Anglo-Arab Insurance Broker’s Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Robert Edwards, surveys the risk-transfer buying patterns of the energy industry in some of […]
Foreign investments do not include only industrial and oil projects in Iraq. Iraq’s Agriculture Ministry is offering land to foreign investors in order to improve the agricultural sector in the country. ( Al SumariaTV )
Turkey's energy and natural resources minister said that the crude oil pipeline agreement would be renewed with Iraq. Speaking at the 9th International Oil and Gas Conference at Ankara's Sheraton Hotel, Taner Yıldız said, "there are big and significant natural gas and oil reserves in east of Turkey. Turkey shapes its energy policies and diplomacy […]
Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz said Tuesday his country sought to renew the Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline accord with Iraq before it expires on March 30, 2010. Turkey and Iraq are likely to reach agreement on the extension of the accord for another 20 years soon, the minister said in an address […]
Iraq expects to produce 12 million barrels of oil a day within seven years and won’t even discuss OPEC quotas until 2012 as output accelerates after years of conflict, the country’s oil minister said. “We are not discussing any quota for Iraq before our production increases significantly,” Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani told reporters today […]
The future stability of Iraq may turn on the fate of the oil city of Kirkuk, who’s estimated 570,000 people are caught in a bitter dispute between the country's Kurdish minority and the central government in Baghdad. Iraq's Kurds, who comprise about 20 per cent of the national population, claim Kirkuk as their own. Some […]
China has become the biggest single investor in Iraq's oil and gas sector, with nearly one fifth of the reserves that have been auctioned over the past year under its control, Meed has reported. China is spending a total of $577m in signing on fees to give it access to an estimated 24 billion barrels, […]
Hungarian oil and gas group MOL has made a discovery in Akri-Bijeel Block in Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The testing results are promising, it said in a statement on 10 March, Portfolio Hungary reported. According to the official announcement: “Gulf Keystone is pleased to announce that Kalegran Ltd., a 100% subsidiary of MOL Hungarian Oil […]
The storm brewing on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' (OPEC) horizon over future Iraqi oil output could engulf the producer group sooner than it would like. "There's only one issue, but it's a big one. It's a tsunami. Iraq," said Leo Drollas at the Centre for Global Energy Studies. After years of sanctions and […]
US super major ExxonMobil will increase its capital spending by nearly 4% this year to $28 billion as it evaluates new fields around the world, but it cautioned that the global economy remained unsteady. ExxonMobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, also said it had completed initial tests at Iraq's West Qurna field, where […]
