Posts Tagged ‘West Qurna Phase 1’

Total in the race to Kurdistan with ExxonMobil and Chevron

Total to acquire ShaMaran Taza oil field in Kurdistan The Canadian ShaMaran Petroleum Corp (ShaMaran) announced this week to have sold its interests to the French major Total  in the Taza oil field in Kurdistan. Last month Total had signed with the US Marathon Oil Company (Marathon) a Farm-in Agreement to acquire 35% of the working interests in (more…)

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Chevron and Reliance close deal in Kurdistan oil fields

Chevron to acquire Rovi and Sarta in Iraqi Kurdistan Following ExxonMobil to move first in Kurdistan in signing six oil field development licenses in November 2011, Chevron is also entering Kurdistan, in the northeastern Iraq, in dealing with Reliance Industries Limited (Reliance) from India.  According to the contract signed between (more…)

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Technical Service Contracts

Definition Technical Service Contract, or TSC, refers to an oil and gas exploration and production contract awarded by a producing country to the International Oil Company (IOC) bidding with the lowest remuneration fees per barrel (RFB) produced as reward of its capital and operational expenditures. Comments Most of the exploration (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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