Iraq Finally on World Gas Map

The Iraqi council of ministers has finally given its final stamp of approval today for the first gas deal of its kind in Iraq’s energy history based on the agreement initialized on July 12 between Royal Dutch Shell, Mitsubishi and South Gas Co, to capture and process flared gas in southern Iraq. This deal would put Iraq on the global gas map, something long due in view of the country’s…

Exxon’s Leap into Kurdistan

It was only a question of time before it became public. ExxonMobil’s move into Kurdistan region of Iraq was surrounded with lots of hush hush from the time it signed in October, until the moment the ministry of natural resources (MNR) in the KRG decided to score a fantastic public relations coup. Now that it is public, where does this leave the regional and the federal governments and what fate…

Nihad Mousa

Nihad Mousa, is the Director General of State Co for Oil Projects (Scop). She is the first Iraqi woman to hold the position of director general in the Iraqi oil ministry’s companies. In this interview with Ruba Husari in Baghdad, she spells out Scop’s role in the unprecedented expansion of the oil infrastructure that will cater for the increase in crude oil output over the next few years. Q: Scop…