Iraq's Kurdish region is meeting nearly all its power needs by investing in natural gas fields – and, in a strategic calculation, it's willing to share.
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Genel Energy takeover of Chia Surkh block a bellwether of deal-making and expansion in Kurdistan this year.
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The leaders of the new Genel Energy talk to reporters about prospects in KRG and beyond, life with Exxon, and sanctity of their deals.
Iraq threatens Exxon with blacklist
Top central government officials said Exxon's deal with the KRG for six blocks violates the West Qurna 1 contract and jeopardizes the company's future in Iraq.
Iraqiya against gas and oil deals
Iraq’s most popular electoral coalition has condemned the Maliki government's oil and gas contracts, signaling a new political strategy for a marginalized opposition movement.
Kurdish rebels step up hostilities with Turkey pipeline attack
Kurdish independence group claims an attack in Turkish territory on the Iraq-Turkey pipeline is response to unresolved and escalating tension.
- Iraqi oil contracts hold key to peace?
- Iraq’s production and exports hit records as the northern pipeline experiences security
- Basra break in violence allows oil workers to leave, head to work…
- Pipeline blast in southern Iraq fixed, oil flow rerouted …
- Fighting in Iraq’s oil capital Basra isn’t the first bloodshed between varying political and armed groups but may be the decisive battle for control over the oil sector, local government and the fate of the province.
Turkey continues energy strategy in Iraq
The state-owned oil company of Turkey finalized two gas deals, increasing its strategic energy investments with its restive southern neighbor.
Sour grapes refined to wine in post-oil auction Diyala
Officials in Diyala province, miffed that foreign companies missed the opportunity for oil investment here, are looking upbeat now at alternative investment prospects.
Q&A: Genel Energy's Tony Hayward and Mehmet Sepil
The leaders of the new Genel Energy talk to reporters about prospects in KRG and beyond, life with Exxon, and sanctity of their deals.
