Posts Tagged ‘Oil reserves’

May 11, 2013, 1:43 pm
Economic expert called on behalf of Jamil Antoine, on Saturday, the central bank to adopt oil and gas Kkhozan the reserves instead of gold and the dollar, stressing that the value of oil exports during the year twice all the gold reserves in the country. (more…)

04-05-2013 02:16 PM

Baghdad (newsletter). Called spokesman Assem Jihad, the oil Ministry to the attention to press Iraq’s oil for delivery of information to the petroleum and energy sector to people that Iraq possessed large oil reserves.

Jihad said the Organization Internews about press coverage and was attended by Iraq’s oil (News Agency): that Iraqi crude after 2003 became the focus of attention of all the media or other organizations and States, due to its Iraq oil stocks estimated at 500 billion barrels, rising above the (150) billion barrels, saying those numbers are growing. (more…)

04/05/2013

BAGHDAD / JD / .. Said a new international report on global oil reserves that Iraq ranked 5 solution within the 10 states with the highest stock, came first in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

According to the report, seen by Agency / JD /: 4 Arab countries of existing Samn, namely Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and Iraq.

10 prize has been solved Nigeria Banaati the oil up to 37 billion barrels, followed by Libya in the ranking 9 Banaati up to 46 billion barrels. (more…)

Saturday, 01 September / September 2012 14:58

{Baghdad: Euphrates News} confirmed a member of the Oil and Energy Committee and MP for the Virtue Susan Saad block that Iraq deserves to manage OPEC {2013} because the second of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and unable to manage.

Said Saad said in a statement released by her office Media received and Euphrates News Agency {} Saturday copy of “The Iraq of the first founders of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, but it does not occupy any position within the organization, there is no even Iraqi staff where,” asserting that “the {2013} must be the share of Iraq Management Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries after Saudi Arabia. ” (more…)

07/26/2012 0:00

Stated that alternative energy can not compensate for the needs of the oil during the next fifty years

Said Academy specializes affairs oil that opening up the technological world is witnessing led to be the economics of oil and gas, the cornerstone of the growth processes of producing countries, stressing that this concept is to make the oil markets, the upper hand in the organization of economic policy for the various joints, advanced industrial countries, and while he believes that the stage the current through which Iraq require more strategic planning, stressed the need to find a tool or a driving force for the advancement of economic destruction, saying that oil is the most prominent of those tools and the driving means toward economic transformation towards achieving progress in sustainable development rates in the country. (more…)

Posted 26/07/2012 10:35 AM

Babinaoz (Reuters) – said Academy specializes affairs of the oil that opening up the technological world is witnessing led to be the economics of oil and gas, the cornerstone of the growth processes of producing countries, stressing that this concept is to make the oil markets, the upper hand in the organization of economic policy for the various joints, advanced industrial countries, and with He sees that the current through which Iraq required more strategic planning, stressed the need to find a tool or a driving force for the advancement of economic destruction, saying that oil is the most prominent of those tools and the driving means toward economic transformation towards achieving progress in sustainable development rates in the country. (more…)

Erbil, June 27 (Rn) – Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Hussain al-Shahristani said in a statement that Iraq has 11% of global oil reserves and that he is about to invest this energy in the coming years.

Iraq seeks to boost oil production to lesbian in three years with his recovery from decades of war and sanctions and is expected to implement the largest expansion in production capacity of oil in the world in 2012 with the opening of new outlets. (more…)

05-06-2012 11:00 AM
The Oil Ministry announced on Tuesday that Iraq’s oil production will reach sixty billion barrels in 20 years, while confirming that the expedition patches that were presented in the fourth round of licenses contain fifteen trillion cubic meters of natural gas.

The Minister of Oil Abdul Karim Laibi told ‘Sumerian News’, the ‘domestic production of oil during the next twenty years will reach sixty million barrels revenues estimated at five trillion dollars at the rate of $ 85 per barrel.’ (more…)

Date: Friday, 18-05-2012 08: 52 am

Baghdad (newsletter) … Economic researcher predicted mutations star’s quality in oil and energy in Iraq for his large oil reserves, noting that Iraq will take control of oil prices in the future.

He said Star (News News Agency): there is a strong desire by oil-consuming countries, to buy Iraqi oil, with its advantages of high quality oil in Basra in particular established which began producing oil light type, in addition to processing operations more accessible to global markets. (more…)

UPI – [4/19/2012]

Iraq has moved to the top of the list of countries with lucrative oil reserves, the country’s deputy prime minister said.

Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Hussain al-Shahristani said Iraq has proven oil reserves of 143 billion barrels plus potential reserves of around 214 billion barrels, which he said “puts Iraq at the top of the list of countries with large reserves,” reports Bloomberg News. (more…)

Published: Mar 11, 2012 23:41 Updated: Mar 14, 2012 20:01

DOHA: The GCC’s hydrocarbon reserves are estimated to be worth around $65 trillion at current export prices, based on new analysis from QNB Capital. This is almost a third of the $200 trillion value of world oil and gas reserves.

To put $65 trillion in context, it is equivalent to 47 times the GCC’s estimated GDP in 2011, or 93 percent of global GDP. It is also 125 times the estimated $521 billion that the region’s governments received in oil and gas revenue during 2011. (more…)

04/01/2012 14:51

Erbil, January 4 (Rn) – The Iraqi Oil Ministry said on Wednesday it was postponing the fourth round for the award of energy contracts to 11 and 12 April next, instead of the seventh and the eighth of March.

It quoted “Reuters” Abdul Mahdi al-Amidi, Director, Licensing and contracts in the ministry as saying “We have decided to postpone the bidding process to give companies more time to study the model of the final contract in response to requests from many companies.” (more…)

Date: Mon 02/01/2012 8:48

Baghdad (news) .. Likely economic researcher Hussein star that Iraq will be a driving force in the management of oil policy, and influential first in oil prices in international markets within the next ten years.

He said the star in a statement to the Agency (news) on Monday: that Iraq has oil reserves, strategic, It is expected to witness the discovery of new oil fields and distinct and high quality in all governorates of the country, adding that the IMF report on the oil and gas in Iraq, was based on Mmsouhat and old data. (more…)

Baghdad, 8 December / December (Rn) – The National Secretariat for the initiative of the Extractive Industries Transparency in Iraq IEITI the completion of the first report of the Extractive Industries Transparency for 2009 will be issued soon for the flags and through its results will improve the situation in Iraq of international peace corruption positively.

He said the Secretary-General of the initiative Alaa Mohi-Din told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) announced today that “there is a significant increase of international companies to enter Iraq’s oil because it contains oil reserves among oil-producing countries, as another country is likely to run out the oil, through the availability of reserve Excellent not consumed during the the past decades as well due to the circumstances of war, siege, and others, and found about 143 billion barrels. ” (more…)

A member of the Commission on oil and energy in the Iraqi Council of Representatives MP “Furat al-Shara” on the importance of investment in the phosphate which is one of the important resources in the country, the country’s direction and the need to follow the work of modern techniques in the investment of the rest of the natural and mineral wealth. (more…)

13/11/2011 17:04

A report prepared by the United Nations that Iraq has oil reserves exceeding 143 billion barrels, and reserve potential exceeding 200 billion barrels, and that will lead the forces of oil Great position to influence the global markets, while Iraq denied officially be granted Company (Exxon Mobil) oil, U.S. approval to work in prospecting for crude oil in the Kurdistan region.

According to a UN report released yesterday that Iraq has oil reserves exceeding 143 billion barrels and potential reserves exceeding 200 billion barrels. The report, prepared by the Information and Analysis Unit and the Joint United Nations agencies, UNDP and the Organization for the reality of the oil and gas in Iraq, Iraq in the event of continuation of the current production of oil Vsikva reserves for 90 years. (more…)

On: Sun 13/11/2011 13:24
Dr. Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum

Iraq faces a major challenge to today’s level of qualification systems, export, transport and storage to accommodate the expected increases in oil production. The coming months will be critical to the success of Iraq’s ruling to the implementation of plans to develop oil fields.

Although the indicators in 2011 in Iraq to increase oil production by encouraging the opening up Iraq to foreign companies. In the past nine months of this year, Iraq was able to supply the oil market, up more than their rates of 300 thousand barrels per day through the ports of North and South, and this is an indication of the activities of foreign companies and investments in rehabilitation and development of oil fields that Iraq had succeeded in signing with them in the licensing rounds, the first and the second was held in Baghdad in 2009. (more…)

BAGHDAD – Abbas Zaidi
A source leading parliamentarian said in an interview with the “world”, said the Commission on oil and energy in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, which oversees the largest oil reserves in the world, working in conditions of miserable too, because they do not have sufficiently familiar with the reports of oil produced by news agencies, research centers, prestigious, and it derives its information from only the Oil Ministry, while a monopoly on recent data. (more…)

01/11/2011 15:47

Sulaimaniyah, Nov. 1 (AKnews) – Iraq exported 67.425 million bpd in October, an increase of 6.87 per cent from 63.1 million bpd the previous month

Mu’tassam Akram, undersecretary of Iraqi Oil Ministry, told AKnews Tuesday that average daily exports for OCtober hit 2.175 million bpd. (more…)

Posted on » Monday, October 31, 2011
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth should rise to nine per cent in 2012 from around 6pc currently, mainly driven by an expected increase in oil production and exports, a senior central bank official said yesterday.

Iraq has some of the world’s largest oil reserves and is currently producing about 2.9 million bpd. High oil prices have helped the country earn billions of dollars more than projected this year.

“It will easily jump to 9pc next year, it will not be difficult. If production and exports in the oil sector rise, it is possible to reach that figure,” Iraqi Central Bank deputy governor Mudher Kasim said. (more…)

30/10/2011 16:47

Erbil, October 30 / October (Rn) – A senior official of Iraq’s central bank said on Sunday that the growth of the GDP of Iraq will rise to 9% in 2012 from about 6% currently supported by an expected increase in oil production and exports.

Iraq has the fourth-largest oil reserves in the world and currently produces about 2.9 million barrels per day. And generates a rise in oil prices more than expected revenues worth billions of dollars this year.

It quoted “Reuters” is harmful to Qasim, deputy governor of Central Bank of Iraq as saying that he would not be difficult to grow the economy grew nine percent if production and exports of the oil sector.

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ASTANA: The US will press major oil-producing nations to ensure they are pumping enough oil to meet demand, regardless of price, while also encouraging a recovery of oil output from Libya and Iraq, a senior energy department official said.

“We don’t assess the supply and demand equation as a function of price per se,” US Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman said.

“We look at satisfying consumer demand.”

“The focus still must be on making sure that the existing producers produce adequate quantities to meet current demand.”

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Confirmed the presence of a surplus in production outside the energy system of export Basra Saad al-Samak detect and Oil Minister Dr. Abdul Karim and coffee for the next few days will witness the announcement of the size of the increase in oil reserves, after the completion of the review of documents, accounts and consolidated with the Kurdistan region, with said access to the production of some three million barrels per day until this month.

He and coffee in a statement singled out the “morning”: that the authorities in charge to study and document the size of the increase reserve had completed its work and is waiting to be received from statistics on oil reserves in the Kurdistan region to officially announce the size of state reserves of crude. He noted that the government of Kurdistan are talking about the existence of reserves estimated at 30 billion barrels of crude oil in the region, and that the ministry asked the province by providing them with technical details and documents to confirm this figure.

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09/10/2011 11:44
Baghdad, Oct. 9 (AKnews) – Several high-ranking Iraqi oil experts got involved in the current dispute over the distribution of the country’s oil revenues and criticized what they called the “marginalization of the provinces”.

The recent oil law and attempts by the federal government to be the sole distributor of the oil wealth were against the constitution, the experts said.

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Oil and Gas Law postpone the passage of the law of the national oil company
01/10/2011

The link between the law of the national oil company and oil and gas law began to take an important place in shaping the country’s oil policy to serve the local economy.

A member of the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary Furat al-Shara, said his committee decided to postpone the adoption of the law of the national oil company until the adoption of the law of oil and gas.

And Odhavfa a press statement that “the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary decided to withdraw the law of the national oil company until the adoption of oil and gas law formula supports the political oil in the country.”

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Baghdad, September 30 / Spettmr (Rn) – A member of the parliamentary oil and energy, said Friday that his committee decided to postpone the adoption of a law the national oil company until the passage of a law of oil and gas.

Said Furat al-Shara told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary law firm decided to withdraw the national oil until the oil law and the gas form of political support the country’s oil.”

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09/09/2011 13:23

Baghdad, September 9 / September (Rn) – The Energy Commission in the Iraqi Council of Ministers on Friday, will leave them a plan to raise oil production to 2.9 million barrels per day from about 2.4 million barrels per day currently before the end of this year.

The spokesman said the media on behalf of the Faisal Abdullah, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “Iraq is planning to raise oil production to 2.0009 million barrels per day in 2011.”

He pointed out that “Iraq currently produces about 2.34 million barrels per day, and was produced in 2006 about 1.955 million barrels a day.”

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Baghdad, September 8 / Spettmar (Rn) – The adviser in the Iraqi government Thursday issued a resolution to 67 meters a set up in the southern oil fields to track and measure the quantities of oil exported to the outside carefully.

The Iraqi oil exports jumped from the ports of the South in July to its highest level in six months, reflecting the efforts of foreign oil companies to increase production.

And exports from the port of Basra and Khor al-Amaya oil 1.77 million barrels per day on average in July, according to data navigation.

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31/08/2011 09:32

Erbil, August 31 / August (Rn) – A spokesman for the Iraqi Oil Ministry, said that according to the expectations of a number of oil companies, the Iraq’s oil reserves total about 142 billion barrels, adding that Iraq is one of the fastest countries in the world in the development of the oil sector.

He said Assem Jihad told the Kurdish news agency (Rn), “according to expectations of a number of major oil companies, Iraq has reserves estimated at 142 billion barrels of oil, not extracted after a delay due to the oil sector investment during the previous years.”

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Many of the world’s biggest energy companies may have to surrender most of the gas from Iraq’s vast southern oilfields to a processing and export project led by Shell, a final draft contract between Baghdad and Europe’s biggest company, obtained by Reuters, shows.

Oil giants including Royal Dutch Shell, BP, U.S.-based Exxon, China’s CNPC, and Italy’s Eni signed technical service contracts to develop three oilfields in southern Iraq in 2009-2010.

But the oil deals to develop the Zubair, Rumaila and West Qurna 1 fields near Basra oblige the big oil contractors to surrender the gas they do not use for reinjection or power generation to Iraq’s state-run South Gas Co (SGC).

Read More: http://business.financialpost.com/2011/08/29/big-oil-companies-may-have-to-give-up-iraq-gas/