Qatar has expressed interest in developing gas fields on Yamal, a Russian peninsula near the Arctic Ocean with enough gas in the ground to satisfy world demand for five years, Reuters has reported. State-run Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom said that it had discussed the “high potential” for deals with state oil firm Qatar Petroleum in LNG, as well as pipeline gas supplies to Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. “The Qatari side expressed interest in projects to develop complex deposits on the Yamal peninsula, including the Yamal-LNG project,” Gazprom said in a statement.
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Iraq: Iraq’s crude oil exports has gone up by 7% in February, from 1.93 million barrels per day in January to just over 2 million bpd in February, MEED has reported, citing data from the State Oil Marketing Organisation (Somo). Meanwhile, the Iraqi ministry and US’ ExxonMobil and its partner UK/Dutch Shell have negotiated a lower baseline production level for the West Qurna-1 field. [AMEInfo.com]
Iraq’s crude oil exports has gone up by 7% in February, from 1.93 million barrels per day in January to just over 2 million bpd in February, MEED has reported, citing data from the State Oil Marketing Organisation (Somo). Meanwhile, the Iraqi ministry and US’ ExxonMobil and its partner UK/Dutch Shell have negotiated a lower baseline production level for the West Qurna-1 field.
by Faleh Al-Khayat, oil expert. This speech was a part of Occupation Year 7: What future for Iraq? , a series of events organized by The BRussells Tribunal, and took place in the European Parliament, 18 March 2009, in Brussels
Iraq: The Iraqi oil ministry will today sign the final contract over West al-Qarna-2 oilfield with Russia’s Lukoil and Norway’s Statoil, Aswat al-Iraq has reported. “The two companies pledged to up production to a peak of 1.8 million barrels per day at a rate of $1.15 per barrel of additional produced barrel,” oil ministry spokesman, Assem Jihad said. Located in southern Iraq, Qarna-2 has a huge reserve estimated to reach 13 billion barrels. [AMEInfo.com]
Iraq: Falah Alamri, head of Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organisation has said the supergiant Rumaila oilfield will begin producing an extra 100,000 barrels per day by the beginning of July, Reuters has reported. Oil major British Petroleum and China’s CNPC had signed a 20-year development contract last year for the field, which has 17 billion barrels of estimated crude reserves. [AMEInfo.com]
Iraq: Iraq’s oil minister has said he expects the country to become the world’s top oil producer within six to seven years, Reuters has reported. “We can’t find a reason to prevent Iraqi production becoming higher than any other Opec state or even states outside Opec,” Hussain al-Shahristani said. Unlike Opec’s 11 other members, Baghdad is not currently subject to the output targets the group uses to set supply levels. Iraq expects capacity to eventually reach up to 12 million bpd. [AMEInfo.com]
The British Business Group (BBG) is one of the longest established organisations of its kind in the UAE. Mark Beer, Chairman & CEO, BBG, talks to Phil Blizzard about the groups activities, which range from forging strong business links between Dubai and the United Kingdom, to networking and social activities.
The Iraqi oil ministry will today sign the final contract over West al-Qarna-2 oilfield with Russia’s Lukoil and Norway’s Statoil, Aswat al-Iraq has reported. “The two companies pledged to up production to a peak of 1.8 million barrels per day at a rate of $1.15 per barrel of additional produced barrel,” oil ministry spokesman, Assem Jihad said. Located in southern Iraq, Qarna-2 has a huge reserve estimated to reach 13 billion barrels.
Iraq’s oil minister has said he expects the country to become the world’s top oil producer within six to seven years, Reuters has reported. “We can’t find a reason to prevent Iraqi production becoming higher than any other Opec state or even states outside Opec,” Hussain al-Shahristani said. Unlike Opec’s 11 other members, Baghdad is not currently subject to the output targets the group uses to set supply levels. Iraq expects capacity to eventually reach up to 12 million bpd.
