Iraq, holder of the world’s fifth- largest crude oil reserves, is pumping more than 2.8 million barrels a day after production started at the Al-Ahdab oil field, Iraq Oil Minister Abdul Kareem al-Luaibi said. State-run China National Petroleum Corp. won a $3.5 billion development contract for Al-Ahdab in November 2008 bidding for Iraq Oil License. [...]
Iraq and its partners, Russia’s LUKOIL and Norway’s Statoil , have shortlisted five companies to compete for the West Qurna Phase Two oilfield development contract, an Iraqi oil official said on Tuesday.
Iraq and its partners, Russia’s LUKOIL and Norway’s Statoil , have shortlisted five companies to compete for the West Qurna Phase Two oilfield development contract, an Iraqi oil official said on Tuesday.
Iraq: Iraq’s deputy oil minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi has said that British Petroleum (BP) and partners are expected to meet an initial target of a 10% rise in output from the Rumaila oilfield by the end of November, Reuters has reported. Supergiant Rumaila, with 17 billion barrels in estimated crude reserves, is the workhorse of [...]
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