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Weatherford completed Gharraf oil field FEED work The Swiss-based oil and gas fields services company Weatherford International Ltd (Weatherford) completed the front end engineering and design (FEED) of the Gharraf, or Garraf, oil and gas field operated by the Malaysia national oil company (NOC) Petronas, Japan Petroleum Exploration (Japex) and the local North Oil Company (NOC) […]
SCR to qualify bidders for Basrah Refinery revamping The national South Refinery Company (SRC) is currently qualifying the engineering companies and contractors interested to bid for the Basrah Refinery revamping and upgrade project in the south of Iraq. This project is part of the Iraq national program to restore the refining capacities of the country […]
CNPC and Total to double production with Halfaya-3 The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC or PetroChina) and its partners, Total from France, Petronas from Malaysia and the local South Oil Company (SOC) confirm to target the plateau production of the Halfaya oil field in the south of Iraq by 2017 as originally defined. Halfaya oil […]
$2 billion Nasiriyah and Bin Umar Oil Depots delayed The national oil company (NOC) State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP) has announced to postpone the tenders opening ceremony for the $2 billion oil storage depots project planned in the south of Iraq. Since the license rounds in 2009 and 2010 during which Baghdad Government awarded […]
SCOP awards Technip Karbala Refinery PMC contract The Iraq national oil company (NOC) State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP) selected the French engineering company Technip to provide project management consultancy (PMC) services on the Karbala Refinery project in the center of Iraq. The Karbala Refinery project is part of the Iraq Government to invest between […]
Iraq Key Projects and Business Highligfhts In 2012, Iraq has been the theater of strategic step changes for most of the companies depending on their profile as international oil companies, national oil companies, small and mid-cap oil companies. The national oil companies, such as Gazprom, Lukoil, PetroChina, Petronas, were moving into the active development of […]
Genel Energy to benefit from dispute resolution In November 2011, the Turkish company Genel Energy International Ltd merged with Vallares PLC to become the largest oil and gas company operating in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Renamed Genel Energy, the new company enlisted the London Stock Exchange (GENL). For both companies the purpose of this […]
