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Amman and Baghdad have signed an agreement to construct a 1,680 km pipeline that will run from Iraq’s southern oil-producing region, Basra, to Anbar province and then to Jordan’s port city of Aqaba. The USD 18 billion costing pipeline will supply Jordan with 850,000 barrels of oil as well as 3.
The oil exploration and production subsidiary of Gazprom, Gazprom Neft Middle East B.V has recently followed the example of the US-based International Oil Company (IOC) ExxonMobil by beginning to invest in oil fields controlled by both the central government of Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government...
Natural Gas Asia was recently pleased to have the opportunity to speak with Dr. Ibrahim Bahr Alolom, the former Iraqi Minister of Oil and the founder of the Iraq Energy Academy. A member of National Iraqi Assembly, Dr. Bahr Alolom was appointed as Minister of Oil in Iraq for two terms, in 2003 under...
On February 19th, Iraq gave its ‘ok’ for the construction of a natural gas pipeline across its territory connecting Iran to Syria. The Iraqi Cabinet said in a statement Tuesday evening that it has instructed the country’s oil minister Abdelkarim al-Luaybi to sign a framework agreement...
In a development that could strain relations between Turkey and the central government of Iraq, Ankara has inked energy agreement with Kurdistan Regional Government, media reports have said. As per a report in AFP, Turkey and Iraqi Kurds have reportedly agreed recently to build a natural gas pipeline...
Kurdish government officials have been discussing gas supplies with Gazprom, the Russian state company, in Moscow. Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, met Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, according to the company. Barzani's visit was to discuss prospects for oil and gas cooperation...
Iran, Iraq, and Syria are working together on a gas pipeline project that will transport gas from the South Pars Field in Assalouyeh, Iran to Damascus via Iraq. Fars Press Agency announced the 1,6000 kilometer pipeline’s transfer capacity would be 110 million cubic meters of natural gas a day...
British firm Heritage Oil has left Kurdistan after disposing of its interest in gas there to Anglo-Turkish company Genel. Heritage, which announced the move in a series of statements over recent months, transferred the 49% stake in the Miran gas field as reyapyment of a loan from Genel. Last...
As part of an ongoing dispute with the central government in Baghdad, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) recently released an official statement clarifying its beliefs regarding its management of its oil resources. The KRG’s release is the result of a number of disputes which have occurred...
In a new minority staff report for the US Senate's committee on foreign relations, the writers noted that “Russia’s Gazprom has been forced to change its domestic strategy, including abandoning its flagship Shtokman project in the Arctic, and it has had to contend with plummeting market value...
