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By John Lee.
The Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) has started drilling a well “Ammara 19” at Missan Oil Company (MOC)‘s Amara field, within the Mishrif reservoir.
IDC’s Director General, Bassim Abdul Kareem, said the drilling operations were carried out using the 2000-HP drilling rig “IDC 23”.
The planned depth of the well is 3,290 meters.
(Source: Ministry of Oil)
The post IDC starts Drilling in Mishrif Reservoir first appeared on Iraq Business News.
By John Lee.
The Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) has announced its intention to conclude contracts with Chinese and American companies operating in Iraq to drill and rehabilitate dozens of oil wells in the country.
The company indicated it is about to start drilling 20 wells in the Nasiriyah field in Dhi Qar, which are included in a long-term plan with the Dhi Qar Oil Company (DQOC) to advance the oil sector, due to be completed in over two years.
After the relative relaxation of the impacts of the coronavirus, the Iraqi Drilling Company resumed its negotiations with the international companies developing oil fields in the country and their counterparts affiliated with the Ministry of Oil in the provinces, in preparation for signing the postponed contracts with the aim of enhancing Iraq’s energy capabilities.
The drilling and rehabilitation contracts, hoped to be concluded soon, include drilling 37 wells in the Zubair field for the Italian company ENI, the main operator of the field, and starting discussions with BP, the main contractor in the Rumaila field, to develop the giant field west of Basra.
This is in addition to the near signing of a contract to drill 43 wells in Majnoon field with the Basra Oil Company (BOC), which is the third largest oil field in the world, with reserves of 6.12 billion barrels.
The Iraqi Drilling Company has completed all its preparations to sign a contract with the Central Oil Company, to drill 27 wells in the East Baghdad field, and it continues its discussions with the Maysan [Missan] Oil Company (MOC) to sign a contract for drilling 22 wells in the Bazargan field as well as rehabilitating another 150 wells and a contract to operate a number of drilling towers and rehabilitation of a large number of wells in the Kirkuk fields with the North Oil Company (NOC).
(Source: Govt of Iraq)
The post New Contracts for Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) first appeared on Iraq Business News.
By John Lee.
A former head of Iraq’s state-run Missan Oil Company (MOC) has reportedly been appointed to run the Ministry of Oil’s Petroleum Contracts and Licensing Directorate (PCLD).
According to Reuters, Ali Maarij, who ran the MOC until becoming a member of parliament in 2014, will take over from Abul Mahdi al-Ameedi, who reached retirement age late last year.
The PCLD oversees oil contracts and negotiates energy deals with international companies.
(Source: Reuters)
By John Lee.
Oil services firm TechnipFMC (TFMC) has agreed to pay $296 million to resolve allegations that the company paid bribes in Brazil and Iraq.
TFMC is the product of a 2017 merger between two predecessor companies, Technip S.A. and FMC Technologies, Inc..
The admissions and court documents establish that beginning by at least 2008 and continuing until at least 2013, FMC conspired to violate the US’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by paying bribes to at least seven government officials in Iraq, including officials at the Ministry of Oil, the South Oil Company (SOC) and the Missan Oil Company (MOC), through a Monaco-based intermediary company in order to win secure improper business advantages and to influence those foreign officials to obtain and retain business for FMC Technologies in Iraq.
(Source: US Justice Dept)
By John Lee.
Production at Halfaya oilfield has reportedly increased by 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) to a total of 370,000 bpd.
Adnan Noshi, head of Maysan Oil Company, told Reuters that output rose after the completion of a new oil processing facility.
A further increase to 470,000 bpd is expected next quarter.
(Source: Reuters)
By John Lee.
Oil Minister Jabar Ali al-Luaibi [Allibi, Luiebi] has transferred ownership of nine state-owned oil companies from the Ministry of Oil to the newly-created Iraqi National Oil Company (INOC).
The Minister is also the President of INOC.
The companies transferred to INOC ownership are:
IBN Expert Blogger Ahmed Mousa Jiyad has described the new company as “dysfunctional, unconstitutional and disintegrative“.
(Source: Ministry of Oil)