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Iraqi Oil And Gas Field Bidding Starts Monday
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 13, 2008 Iraq's Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani will lead a delegation to London, where companies prequalified to bid on a handful of oil and gas fields will hear details of the terms on Monday. Iraq is beginning a process to allow foreign investors to develop oil and gas fields. Details of the investment options -- including the exact fields, contract types and return on investment -- have been in the rumor mill but not confirmed by the ministry. On Monday, Shahristani will give these details and specifics on the fields, so companies can decide which fields to bid on. The deadline for bidding is expected to be early next year. Later this year another group of fields is to be offered to bidders.
Gas in Iraqi Kurdistan comes online. Dana Gas is partially owned by Crescent. "The aim is to replicate some similar projects to make sure that in the end we will end shortages and hopefully export to the rest of Iraq," KRG Minister of Natural Resources Ashti Hawrami said. The oil and gas chief of Iraqi Kurdistan says the region will develop its natural gas resources to provide electricity to its residents and a planned industrial center called Kurdistan Gas City. The groundbreaking for Gas City -- an industrial, residential and commercial services development -- has been delayed, but officials involved say it is still going to happen. Currently 75 million cubic feet per day of gas is flowing to the new Erbil power plant from Kor Mor, with the goal of 300 million by mid-2009, as it and a new plant in Sulaimaniya together reach 1,250 megawatts generating capacity. Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum announced Saturday they began sending gas from their Kor Mor field in Sulaimaniya through a new 112-mile pipeline.
Rumors of oil law deal as Barzani heads to Baghdad. Movement of the law has not been confirmed by other members or experts on the ground. The Kurdish Globe reports Hassan said there had been an agreement between proponents of a decentralized oil sector -- the Kurdistan Regional Government -- and those who support a strong central government, including Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani. The law has been sidelined as disputes between the sides included issues like oil deals signed by the KRG. "Undoubtedly, those issues are to be solved later either by the Federal Court of Iraq or the national Oil and Gas Law will find a solution for the issue after its approval," said Hassan. The Kurdish Globe also reports KRG President Massoud Barzani will lead a delegation to Baghdad to discuss with national leaders issues including the oil law. Iraqi President and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani said after a Kurdish political leadership session "the meeting discussed the regional president's visit to Baghdad for negotiations on finding solutions to the current problems."
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Analysis: Caspian division possible
Washington (UPI) Oct 10, 2008 The two-day first Intergovernmental Economic Conference of Caspian littoral states, held Oct. 3 to 5 in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan on the Volga delta, drew surprisingly little coverage in the Western press, despite its potential importance. Russian delegates floated a proposal that the Caspian coastal nations of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan establish a Caspian Economic Cooperation Organization. If the organization comes to fruition, it could solve one of the most complex diplomatic stalemates stymieing the unbridled development of the Caspian's offshore waters and seabed -- an equitable division of the inland sea's assets. |
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