It was only a question of time before it became public. ExxonMobil’s move into Kurdistan region of Iraq was surrounded with lots of hush hush from the time it signed in October, until the moment the ministry of natural resources (MNR) in the KRG decided to score a fantastic public relations coup. Now that it is public, where does this leave the regional and the federal governments and what fate…
Tag: oil ministry
Nihad Mousa
Nihad Mousa, is the Director General of State Co for Oil Projects (Scop). She is the first Iraqi woman to hold the position of director general in the Iraqi oil ministry’s companies. In this interview with Ruba Husari in Baghdad, she spells out Scop’s role in the unprecedented expansion of the oil infrastructure that will cater for the increase in crude oil output over the next few years. Q: Scop…
Iraq’s Gas Exploration & Development Strategy
Natik Al-Bayati: Iraq’s Gas Exploration and Development Strategy – Istanbul, Oct. 19, 2011
2012 Production Challenge
Iraqi oil production has been slowly, but steadily, ramping up in the last three years, from an average of 2.336 million b/d in 2009 to 2.358 million b/d in 2010, to an average of 2.66 for the first eight months of this year, according to oil ministry official figures. With this, exports have also risen by almost 300,000 b/d, from a 2009 average of 1.9 million b/d in 2009 to…