Shell and Petronas have awarded Dubai-based Dodsal Group a $106m contract to lay a pipeline at the Majnoon oilfield, an Iraqi oil official said. Reuters reports that under the deal, Dodsal Group will build a 79-km (50-mile) pipeline to carry oil from the supergiant Majnoon oilfield to a crude storage depot near Zubair in southern […]
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered the army to increase its protection of the country’s pipelines and refineries. “Any breaches will cause problems at the Dora [Doura, Daura] and Baiji [Bayji] refineries (pictured) and the pipelines feeding the power stations,” Maliki said yesterday during a televised Cabinet meeting on the government’s performance during its […]
Jordan's Prime Minister, Marouf Bakhit, said that Iraq has agreed to increase the volume of daily oil supply to Jordan from 10,000 barrels to 15,000 barrels, with plans to increase the quantity to 30,000 barrels a day eventually. The two countries have agreed in principle to a planned crude oil pipeline stretching between the neighboring […]
The energy ministers of Iraq, Iran and Syria will sign a contract for transporting Iranian gas to the Middle East and Europe, an Iranian official said on Tuesday. Javad Oji, Iran's deputy oil minister, told the Iranian news agency Mehr that senior officials from the three countries met in Baghdad last week to discuss the […]
Iran's Mahshahar, a specialist oil pipe manufacturer, is in talks with Basra Investment Commission to build a factory and warehouses in Basra to provide the Iraqi State Oil Company with custom-made oil pipes. Head of the commission, Haidar Ali Fadhil, told NINA that the Iranian firm had discussed building the factory and the warehouses to international […]
Iraq's Oil Pipelines Company has issued a tender for the supply of 35 km of pre-coated oil pipelines of various sizes. The deadline for the receipt of bids is 12 noon on 17th May. Please click here to download details.
The Director General of BOTAS (Boru Hatlari ile Petrol Tasima AS), Turkey's state-owned Petroleum Pipeline Corporation, said on Sunday that "during recent talks in Iraq, the Iraqis asked for assistance to re-build a 40 inches petroleum pipeline that was destroyed. We told the Iraqis that we are ready to help them". Speaking in southern province […]
Iraq's state-run South Oil Company is holding talks with international oil companies to build three pipelines worth up to $500 million [600 billion Iraqi dinars], according to a report from Dow Jones Newswires. SOC's director-general said on Monday that the intention was to link key oil fields to the export system in southern Iraq. "We […]
Iraq’s Oil Ministry has completed repairs to the damaged oil pipeline carrying crude from north Iraq’s Kirkuk fields through Turkey, and pumping resumed after mid-night on Tuesday morning, the Oil Ministry’s official spokesman has confirmed. “The Oil Ministry has completed repairs in the damaged Iraqi-Turkish oil pipeline, exporting crude oil to the Turkish Ceyhan terminal […]
Syria's Minister for Petroleum, Sufian Allao [Aloa] (pictured), and visiting Iraqi Minister for Oil, Abdul Kareem Luaibi [Elaibi], met on Sunday to discuss ways of further bolstering bilateral cooperation in oil, gas and mineral resources. They also discussed a possible 'reoperation' of a Syrian-Iraqi oil pipeline once it is rehabilitated, and closer cooperation between both […]
An official spokesman for Iraq's Oil Ministry's said on Wednesday that there were fewer attacks on Iraq's oil pipelines in 2010 than in previous years. "The Oil Ministry's Technical Department had prepared a statistic on the number of attacks against oil installations that reached 65 attacks in 2010, compared with 81 attacks in 2009," Assem […]
Syria and Iraq have reached a final agreement to build two oil pipelines and a gas pipeline between their two countries, and tender invitations will be issued soon, Syrian Oil Minister Sufian Alao [Suffian Alao] (pictured) was quoted as saying on Tuesday. Alao was quoted by Syrian newspaper Al-Thawra as saying an existing oil pipeline […]
