Posts Tagged ‘Basra’

Shell and Petronas to invest $1 billion in 2013 in Iraq Majnoon oil field

Shell and Petronas to double Majnoon production The super major Shell and its partners, the national oil companies Petronas from Malaysia and South Oil Company (SOC) from Iraq, are planning to invest up to $1 billion capital expenditure to double the production at the Majnoon oil field in the south (more…)

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One Day – One Country: Iraq

Iraq Key Projects and Business Highligfhts  In 2012, Iraq has been the theater of strategic step changes for most of the companies depending on their profile as international oil companies, national oil companies, small and mid-cap oil companies. The national oil companies, such as Gazprom, Lukoil, PetroChina, Petronas, were moving (more…)

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Lukoil selects WorleyParsons for West Qurna-2 in South of Iraq

WorleyParsons to provide project management services November 2012, OAO Lukoil (Lukoil) selected the Australian engineering company WorleyParsons to provide project management services (PMS) on the next three years for the West Qurna-2 oil field development project in southern Iraq. Discovered in 1973, the West Qurna-2 oilfield is the second largest (more…)

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Chevron Phillips studies $6 billion Chemical plant in Basra

Iraq and Chevron Phillips signed a Letter of Intent Iraq and Chevron Phillips Chemical Corp, a joint venture of Chevron Corp and ConocoPhillips, signed a letter of intent to perform a project feasibility study of developing a petrochemical plant in the country. The company would examine building a new facility and (more…)

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$17 billion Shell & Mitsubishi gas flare recovery in Iraq

Shell and Mitsubishi to gather gas from Basra oil fields The Iraq Government has given its nod to the natural gas exploration deal signed between Shell from the Netherlands and Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation (Mitsubishi). The project, which requires capital expenditure of around $17.2 billion, was initially signed in 2008. The joint venture,  Basra (more…)

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