Iraqi State Minister, Ali al-Dabbagh, said Iraq agreed to build pipelines across its shared border with Jordan to increase supplies of oil to its western neighbour, according to a report from Bloomberg. The countries also agreed to discuss development of the Risha natural-gas field along their common border, the minister told a news conference in […]
An economic adviser to the Iraqi government, Salam al-Qoraishi, said Iraq and Syria had agreed in principle to extend a pipeline with a capacity of 1.7 million barrels through Syrian territories to export Iraqi oil to the Syrian ports on the Mediterranean Sea, according to AKnews. Iraq is currently linked to the Turkish port of […]
An estimated 7,000 km (4,400 miles) of new pipeline will need to be built in Iraq if the country is to meet its oil export targets, according to Penspen Group Chief Executive David Stanley. According to a report from Pipelines International, Mr Stanley underlined the need to repair and reinforce Iraq’s two existing major export […]
The General Manager of Turkey’s Genel Enerji, Orhan Duran, said on Thursday that plans to set up a refinery in northern Iraq, shelved due to the global financial crisis, were back on the agenda and planned total investment was $500 million. He also told Reuters in an interview the company was continuing work on building […]
