Baghdad vs KRG

“Iraq Oil: Between The Centre And The Region” – By Tariq Shafiq

Ashti Hawrami . Barham Saleh . capital investment . contracts . DNO . hydrocarbon law . KRG . kurds . ministry of oil . oil ministry . oil reserves . PSA . Shahristani . upstream Studies, Speeches & Presentations

Mana’a Al-Obeidi

In an interview in his office in Kirkuk (North Iraq) late August, Manaa al-Obeidi, director general of North Oil Co (NOC) talks to Ruba Husari, editor of Iraq Oil Forum, about the state of the northern oil fields and NOC plans:

Q: What is the state of the producing fields in northern Iraq?

A: We have witnessed a relative increase in output from producing fields in the last 18 months. For example, the Kirkuk field was producing 320,000 b/d and has now reached 400,000 b/d. In Bai Hassan, production went up from 150,000 b/d in mid-2008 to 175,000 b/d after we started water injection for the first time in this field about eight months ago and drilled three new wells. Jambour field…

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Ajeel . al-Obeidi . Bai Hassan . Basrah . BP . ConocoPhillips . constitution . dumping . East Baghdad . Ein Zalah . Erbil . exports . Himrin . IDC . Jambour . Japex . Kar Group . Khabbaz . Khurmala . Kirkuk . KRG . kurds . NOC . pipelines . Rumaila The Interview

Iraq: The Shiite View

25 July 2008

Iraqi Shiite Vice President Adel Abdul Mehdi does not disguise his and his party’s ambitions in establishing a semiautonomous region in southern Iraq, home to the country’s most abundant and biggest oil fields, in parallel to the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, despite Sunni objections and warnings that the move would practically divide Iraq into three mini-states, with the southern region backed by influential Shiite neighbor Iran.

“I strongly believe that a strong region in the south will play a unifying factor for Iraq, not a divisive one, because unity in a federal system can only be achieved between strong constituents, not weak ones,” Abdul Mehdi, one of Iraq’s two vice presidents — Sunni Tarek al-Hashemi is the other…

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Abdul Mehdi . Adel . contracts . Daawa . hydrocarbon law . Iran . Kirkuk . kurds . Maliki . Obama . oil and gas law . Shiite . SICI . sunnis 2008

Buying Time

29 September 2006

It will be 2008, at the earliest, before Iraq’s southern provinces unite to form the giant oil-rich federal region that some Iraqi groups are calling for. That’s the deal reached this week by Shiite and Sunni lawmakers which, for now at least, averts further ethnic and religious strife over a Shiite-backed law outlining the mechanisms whereby Iraq’s provinces can form autonomous regions. But the arrangement, brokered by Kurdish lawmakers, does nothing to enlighten international oil companies confused about the way Iraq’s huge southern fields will or should be developed. They only have to watch the bouncing share price of Norway’s DNO — which has signed a production sharing agreement with Kurdish authorities in the north — to see…

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Al-Shahristani . amendments . barahm saleh . constitution . DNO . federal region . Genel . Hawrami . hydrocarbon law . KRG . kurds . provinces . referendum . Shiite . Talabani . Western Oil Sands 2006