Gulf Keystone notes today’s announcement by MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Plc., the operator regarding the spudding of the Gulak-1 exploration well on the Akri-Bijeel block in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Gulak-1 i...
Chevron Corp confirmed on Thursday its purchase of 80 percent of two blocks in Iraq’s Kurdistan, where the second-largest U.S. oil company sees “considerable promise” despite active diplomatic disput...
London-listed Genel Energy is set to gain a 23% stake in the in the Bina Bawi exploration licence in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Genel will acquire the stake by purchasing all of the share capital of Petoil subsidia...
A “significant oil accumulation” has been found at Hunt Oil Middle East’s Simrit-2 exploration well, located in the Ain Sifni production sharing contract in Kurdistan, a partner to the project has announced. In an ann...
DNO International ASA, the Norwegian oil and gas company, announced today that it has completed drilling of the Peshkabir-1 exploration well in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and is preparing to test observed oil shows ...
Heritage Oil Plc, an independent upstream exploration and production company, provides an update on the Miran West-3 well in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (“Kurdistan”). Highlights Testing of a reservoir in...
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...
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...
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...
ExxonMobil, the first supermajor to move into Iraqi Kurdistan, is quietly mobilising in Arbil despite strenuous objections from the central government, according to a report. Since the bold play came to light in Novem...