Sixty-Well Drilling Tender Announced for Iraq's Maysan Province Iraq's newly founded state-owned Maysan Oil Company (MOC) has published tenders for the drilling of up to 60 wells.
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New physical barriers keeping would-be saboteurs from attacking Iraq's northern pipeline have led to increased oil exports. It's a major reason Elizabeth Burg, a U.S. Army civilian who volunteered for duty in Iraq, was recently named one of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' top five proteges.
Burg's duties include inspect…
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has lent his support to a new two-pronged oil-development strategy in an attempt to appease those who have challenged the current strategy as relying too much on the hope of future investment from international oil companies by launching an immediate domest…
A deal has been finalized creating a joint venture between the Iraq Drilling Co. and the British Mesopotamia Petroleum Co.
It’s the first such joint venture in post-Saddam Iraq, and will likely be a template for future projects to bring foreign oil companies into the world’s third largest oil reserves.
The Iraq Oil Service Co. will be responsible for drilling at least 60 wells a year, with the country seeing a 120,000 barrels per day increase within the first year, Ahmed Rasheed repor…
Plus much more in this long-weekend edition of Iraq Oil Report, including updates on more going on in the oil and electricity sector, election results revealed, and the status of key security, societal and economic issues. A must read:
One might call them the Batman and Robin of the Bayji oil refinery.
Together Ali al-Obaidi, director-general of the Northern Oil Company, and his sidekick, Colonel Adil al-Jamali, commander of the Bayji oil police, have become a formidable crime-fighting duo a…
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A natural gas deal in the works between Shell and the state-run South Gas Co. will now include Mitsubishi and…
