2nd Licensing Round-Factbox

(Click Headline To Open All Documents) Minister’s Speech Istanbul Aug.25, 2009 Review Of Technical Service Contract-Abdul Mahdi al-Ameedi List of 2nd Licensing Round Prequalified Companies – Final 2nd Licensing Round –  Fields Map 2nd Licensing Round – Timeline 2nd Licensing Round – Operator Qualifications 2nd Licensing Round – Participation Fees 2nd Licensing Round – Consortia Rules 2nd Licensing Round – Bidding Parameters 2nd Licensing Round – Award Restrictions 2nd Licensing…

Iraq Watch – Confused Priorities

26 September 2008 A second bid round for Iraq’s upstream sector, currently being prepared by the oil ministry, promises to transform the country’s oil industry. If all goes to plan, a second set of oil and gas fields would be awarded by the end of next year, hard on the heels of the first eight fields announced this summer — and the Iraqi oil industry will be bustling. That’s good…

Iraq Watch – The Need for Clarity

17 October 2008 Iraq finally unveiled the terms of its big upstream opening. International oil companies now realize that to win a 20-year service contract to rehabilitate and redevelop some of Iraq’s giant oil fields, they need to offer it high production targets at the lowest cost. For committing to spend money on rehabilitation of infrastructure and drilling of wells as well as a new reassessment of recoverable reserves in…

Thamir Al-Ghadban

Former Oil Minister and Chief Advisor to the Iraqi Prime Minister Thamir al-Ghadban talks to Ruba Husari in London April 29, 2009 Q: What are the chances that the first bid round concludes according to schedule this summer? A: Based on what has been done so far starting from the announcement of the first licensing round last year and all the steps that followed, including the road-show in London, the…