13 June 2008 A top-ranking Royal Dutch Shell official is in Baghdad this week to discuss a heads of agreement to establish a joint venture to invest in Iraq’s gas sector and process associated gas from southern fields for domestic and export markets, an Iraqi oil source told International Oil Daily Thursday. The talks, the first held in the Iraqi capital by a senior international oil company executive since 2003,…
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Shell, Iraq Push on With JV Gas Talks
6 June 2008 The Iraqi oil ministry and Royal Dutch Shell will launch a second round of talks in Damascus next week on establishing a joint venture in southern Iraq to exploit associated gas, a ministry source in Baghdad told International Oil Daily Thursday. The talks follow a first round of negotiations in late May aimed at concluding a heads of agreement this summer. The Anglo-Dutch supermajor submitted proposals to…
Iraq, Oil Majors Conclude Support Talks
13 May 2008 Five oil majors have wrapped up talks with Iraqi oil ministry negotiators on short-term technical support contracts for five oil-producing fields and are now expected to submit their final proposals to the ministry by June, Iraqi oil sources told International Oil Daily Monday. The Iraqi oil ministry is keen to finalize the deals before it launches its first licensing round for long-term development contracts early this summer….
Iraq Nears Support Deals With Oil Majors
15 April 2008 Iraq’s oil ministry expects to sign two deals with two oil majors by the end of the month under the technical support contracts framework approved recently by the Iraqi cabinet, with two other deals expected to follow shortly afterward, Iraqi oil sources told International Oil Daily Monday. The ministry has also named 35 international oil companies it said have prequalified to bid in the upcoming licensing round…