Iraq's parliament has passed a bill for a complete ban on the sale, import and production of alcohol. The law entitles the state to fine Iraqi dinars 25m ($21,000) for anyone violating the alcohol ban. However, the parliament ...
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Switzerland-based commodity trading house Trafigura said Monday that falling oil prices, significant volatility, structural oversupply and the emergence of contango price structures have created significant opportunities in the crude and ...
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Crude oil is flowing through the Kurdish-controlled Iraq-Turkey pipeline at 650,000-700,000 b/d and the line's pumping capacity will be lifted to 1 million b/d by 2016, the Kurdistan Regional Government's natural resources minister said ...
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Al Safi Danone Iraq will receive around $18m in investment from World Bank Group member IFC to expand its dairy operations to enhance domestic food security. This is a part of World Bank Group's strategy to encourage South-South ...
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Kuwait Food Company Americana Group and TGI Fridays will enhance their partnership with a new agreement for Americana to open 35 new Fridays restaurants over the next five years. This agreement will give Americana a total of 90 Fridays ...
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Iraq exported 2.509 million b/d of crude in April, all from its southern oil terminals as the country's northern export pipeline remained inoperable. April exports were 112,000 b/d more than the 2.397 b/d exported from the country in ...
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The volume of crude from the northern Iraq region of Kurdistan being held in tanks at Turkey's Mediterranean oil hub of Ceyhan has reached 1 million barrels, Turkish energy minister Taner Yildiz told reporters Wednesday in a press ...
Iraq aims to boost its oil exports by nearly 26% to 3.4 million b/d in 2014, a senior official said Wednesday. "Exports reached more than 2.7 million b/d this month, and the rate [that] is planned for 2014, including exports from the ...
Gulf Keystone, a leading independent E&P operator in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, today provides an operational and corporate update. Significant progress has been made since the Field Development Plan ("FDP") for the Shaikan field was ...
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Oil Search reports that as at 06:00 hours PNG time on 2 January, the Mananda 7 well was at a depth of 1,921 metres in a 121/4 " hole. Since the last drilling report released on 19 December 2013, drilling progress has been 860 metres. The ...
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CALGARY, Dec. 4, 2013 /CNW/ - Oryx Petroleum Corporation Limited ("Oryx Petroleum" or the "Corporation") today announces the successful discovery at Zey Gawra in the Hawler license area.. The ZEG-1 well was flow tested at an average rate of ...
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Dana Gas, the Middle East’s leading regional private sector natural gas company, announced today that Adyard Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of Interserve plc, has been awarded a $17 million contract for the fabrication of an offshore ...
WesternZagros Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:WZR) ("WesternZagros" or "the Company") has completed testing operations in the Oligocene reservoir of the Kurdamir-3 appraisal well on the Kurdamir oil and gas discovery in the Kurdistan Region of ...
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Abu Dhabi National Energy company TAQA said on Monday it has received approval from the Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq to develop the first phase of the Atrush oil field, Emirati news agency WAM reported. According to the ...
A consortium in partnership with Qemmet El-Iraq will overhaul and manage the 2 MTPA Muthanna Cement Plant in Muthanna Governorate on 14-year contract. A consortium of ASEC Cement, a portfolio company of ASEC Holding, and Iraq s Qemmet ...
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