Kurdistan Oil & Gas Development

[alan131210]

is this the new oil-pipeline which is building by genel energy?

na this is connecting one of Kirkuk's oil field structure (Khurmour) to Erbil for domestic usage . the 2nd one (Havana) still remains undeveloped but is awarded to ExxonMobil.

[alan131210]

ERBIL 14.04.2012 / (AKnews)

General energy Company announced that at the end of 2012 , their Tawke fields will produce 100,000 oil barrels per day at Kurdistan region , on the other hand DNO Norwegian oil company operating in Kurdistan has announced , at Tawke fields no.4 , currently 7000 oil barrels per day is produced.

General energy which currently holds 25% of Tawke's oil field shares , has announced their company will be digging at a new field at Tawke which will be 4000 meters deep , the fields currently produces 60,000 barrels per day.

Tony Howard, BP's ex CEO and current General Energy boss said " Peshkabir is the first oil field out of the 7 planned diggings to be explored within the next 18 months" in a statement to Proactive inverters website.

DNO is currently digging at Tawke oil field no. 14 which will reach 2665 meters down to hit the black gold , and currently it has reached down to 1800 meters.

AKnews

[alan131210]

17-04-2012

Afrin Announced in the exploration for oil they and their partner Hunt Oil struck an important oil discovery in the Kurdistan Region, which is to be added to the set of discoveries that have attracted foreign oil companies for the semi-autonomous region in recent years.

Afrin said that the discovery in the area of Ain ​​Sifni operated by Hunt Oil predicts that the region is promising.

Afrin Has already said on its website that the resources of Ain ​​Sifni may reach 917 million barrels reserve.

Reuters

[alan131210]

17/04/2012 16:57

DUHOK, April 17 (AKnews) - The Oil and Gas Law will determine the places to explore and extract oil across the country, not Shahristani, said today a member of the federal Oil and Energy Committee.

Hussein ShahristaniThe committee member also called for the continuation of production and export from Iraq and Kurdistan despite the political differences.

MP from Kurdish Blocs Coalition (KBC) Farhad al-Atroushi said that no one has the right to identify these areas before approving the Oil and Gas Law.

Hussein al-Shahristani, the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs told Bloomberg that the Exxon Mobil's contracts and other contracts carried out by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) may be recognized by the Iraqi government if the authorities in Baghdad were allowed to review and modify them with the consent of the Council of Ministers.

However, he said what was non-negotiable is the exploration in three of the sites in disputed areas that are outside the region and perhaps three sites that belong to the Region. He added that the exploration of these areas will be contested by Baghdad.

Tensions between the governments of Baghdad and Erbil after Kurdistan Region rejected the Oil and Gas draft law, because they believed the powers it granted the federal government to manage the oil wealth would be at the expense of the region.

Tens of small and medium enterprises including Norwegian DNO and the Austrian company OMV have signed contracts to explore sites with the Kurdistan region.

The executive director of Exxon Mobil, the first major oil company to show real interest in the region, said last month:

"The company is committed to all its contracts with the federal government and Kurdistan Region and the company did not immediately respond to the request to suspend its contracts with the region.

"We noticed some flexibility in the new position of Shahristani in his last statement about Erbil contracts.

"But I, as a Kurdish MP, think that Shahristani doesn't believe in giving the region any validity related to the conclusion of oil contracts and managing the oil sector in any way."

Iraq is seeking to increase its production capacity in the coming years to reach 12 million barrels of oil per day.

By Khudr Khallat

RN/SS/AKnews

[alan131210]

well done Barzani once again you made these chauvinists to bow down to KRG's demands




18/04/2012

Erbil, April 18 / April (Rn) - Hussein al-Shahristani, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister for Energy said Wednesday that the Iraqi government was willing to discuss their differences over oil deals with Kurdistan Regional Government.

Hussain al-Shahristani said during a visit to London that "serious differences with the Kurdistan can not say that they will be resolved soon," according to "Reuters".

But he said that Baghdad was in talks with BP. Me on Kirkuk oil field, which objected to by the region because the region disputed between Baghdad and Erbil.

The Kurdistan Regional Government stopped oil export at the beginning of April from fields in the region until further notice due to non-payment of the federal government in Baghdad financial receivables for foreign companies operating in the oil production region.

The government says the province on Baghdad to pay $ 1.5 billion dollars to oil producers in the region, while Baghdad agreed late last month to pay nearly $ 560 million.

The Kurdistan region has oil reserves of 45 billion barrels and the KRG began subtracting the oil fields in 2003 to foreign investment.

Abdullah Sabri

http://www.aknews.com/ar/aknews/2/302418/

[burnsss]

This Shahristani is talking rubbish. If he was serious about the issue the problem would have been solved long time ago. I mean look att the latest draft law on oil he submited to parlament, it gave central goverment all the powers. Yet he stills call krg oilcontracts "illegal" and blackmail companies that have signed with krg. But Ashti Hawrami can see trough his lies and went ahead of his own oil law or we would still not have single oil companie or oil extracted. if it wasnt for our brave politician we would still have 2 hour electricity and live in baghdadstyle shithouses. Krg should build their own pipeline going to turkey and we will see how big mouth Al-Shahristani-Al-Saddami 2 will have.

[hevalo27]

well done Barzani once again you made these chauvinists to bow down to KRG's demands

i dont think it will change anything

[alan131210]

This Shahristani is talking rubbish. If he was serious about the issue the problem would have been solved long time ago. I mean look att the latest draft law on oil he submited to parlament, it gave central goverment all the powers. Yet he stills call krg oilcontracts "illegal" and blackmail companies that have signed with krg. But Ashti Hawrami can see trough his lies and went ahead of his own oil law or we would still not have single oil companie or oil extracted. if it wasnt for our brave politician we would still have 2 hour electricity and live in baghdadstyle shithouses. Krg should build their own pipeline going to turkey and we will see how big mouth Al-Shahristani-Al-Saddami 2 will have.

couldn't have put it better myself

[crazyhorse]

It's good the Kurds don't fall for the Arab lies anymore! Our enemies want the following things:

- Bad relations between Kurds. Lying against Kurds, so there is confusion among the Kurds. Lying against Kurds to create chaos. Spotting 'a weak spot' and try to 'hit us' where we are weak (they failed in this part, since we don't have any weak spots ).

They are nothing. Our politicians are much smarter than these donkey's. They want to get rid of them (them=our politicans) because they are not capable enough to compete with/against them.

Barzani is a true, brilliant Kurdish leader!

[alan131210]

well they should know it fair and square , we will run our oil affairs and will not let them even read the contracts in a newspaper so they might as well tell iran , kaka they are not giving in , whats next ? invade like Saddam did with Kuwait . of course this will be a good step and the end of iraq as we know it .

[hevalo27]

i am sure,when the genel-energy pipeline is built, than we will declare independence.
maybe a short time bevore it gets finished. furthermore iraq is producing many barrels and transport it trough the ceyhan pipeline, which goes trough kurdish areas.
we will demand a lot of money and if they dont agree, we will stop it, but i think they would agree, because they can transport more than 500 000 bpd with them.

how long time will it need, until the kurdish-genel pipeline will connect with ceyhan?
then is showtime dear kurds

[alan131210]

seems that ExxonMobil is not going to be working in Iraq that's why shahristani ( not even Iraqi oil minister) visits UK to talks with BP


http://www.oil.gov.iq/moo/feeds.php?lan ... ews&id=361

[burnsss]

Sharistani the agent of Iran is trying to outsmart the kurds by deploying his vicious tactics. Now he tries to invite BP to the heart of Kurdistan (Kirkuk) to get the upper hand. BP should know that the peshmerga will not protect their asses and that they might be kidnapped and be put up in internet beheading video.

[alan131210]

Sharistani the agent of Iran is trying to outsmart the kurds by deploying his vicious tactics. Now he tries to invite BP to the heart of Kurdistan (Kirkuk) to get the upper hand. BP should know that the peshmerga will not protect their asses and that they might be kidnapped and be put up in internet beheading video.

Kirkuk oil field structure consists of 3 parts , Baba Khurmala and Avana. baba is in kirkuk rovicne while avana and khurmala lie in KRG , Khurmala lies in Erbil and is developed and oil is extracted for domestic usage. while avana is still undeveloped but ExxonMobil has won a block in avana which is why Baghdad was opposing to the contract .

so they only have baba oil field which has been pumping oil for 80 years now and few weeks ago well no.1 dried up , and the rest are old and need developments thus iraq is seeking BP to do the job , but rest assured since KRG has unofficial control over kirkuk , the deal with BP will fail unless KRG and kirkuk PC are cooperate in the deal which i see unlikely hence the attempts by shahr al stani will fail .

[burnsss]

Lets hope they will fail i was afraid that the snake tried to take over our oildfields