23 September 2008 Royal Dutch Shell and Iraq on Monday inked a heads of agreement (HOA) to establish a joint venture to gather, process and market associated natural gas from southern Iraq, and plan to sign a definitive multibillion-dollar deal within a year, Iraqi and industry sources said. Officials from Shell’s gas and power division, headed by Executive Director Linda Cook, traveled to Baghdad on Monday for the signing ceremony,…
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Iraq OKs Preliminary Gas Deal With Shell
9 September 2008 The Iraqi cabinet on Sunday approved a preliminary gas deal between Royal Dutch and South Gas Co. (SGC), giving the green light for detailed negotiations on a final deal expected next year, Iraqi and industry sources said. The deal is a nonbinding heads of agreement (HOA) to establish a joint venture to gather and process associated gas now being flared from Basrah region oil fields in the…
Shell Official in Baghdad for Gas Talks
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,…
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…