Iraq | Egypt Oil & Gas - Part 70
Gazprom Neft starts work on third well at the Badra field in Iraq
Gazprom Neft has started work to reactivate well Bd1 at Badra, Iraq, where it is operator. The work will make it possible to determine the technical state of the well and subsequently test four productive stratas at t... French Total seeks business in Iraqi Kurdistan: chief
French oil giant Total is in talks to tap opportunities to invest in autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, its chief said Tuesday as Baghdad insists contracts should go through the central government. “Kurdistan is part o... ABB wins contract from Shell to build power plant in Iraq
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won a $60 million contract from Shell Gas Iraq B.V. to build a new power plant in southern Iraq. The power plant will be operated by the Basrah Gas Company, ... Iraq starts oil exports from new floating facility
Iraq began loading oil from a long-awaited new floating Single Point Mooring (SPM) platform in the Gulf on Thursday, two sources at the state-owned South Oil Company said, in a breakthrough that could substantially bo... Heritage spuds Kurdish wildcat
Jersey-based Heritage Oil has spudded the Miran East-1 exploration well on Miran Block in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The well is being drilled to a target depth of 4000 metres to investigate the exploration potenti... Iraq cuts oil exports to Jordan by almost half
Iraq’s crude oil exports to Jordan have dropped to 6,000 barrels per day (bpd), an official said. Director general for State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) Fallah Jasem al-Ameri said that instead of 10,000 bp... Petrofac Awarded US$330 Million Project in Iraq
Petrofac, the international oil & gas service provider, has been awarded a US$330 million lump-sum engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Gazprom Neft Badra B.V. (‘Gazprom’) for the first phas... Total will shift focus from Iraq to Kurdistan
Total S.A. has become the latest big oil company to shift the focus of its Iraq ambitions toward semi-autonomous Kurdistan. After finding Baghdad contracts economically challenging, the French company will not take pa... 
