Posts under ‘Iraq’

By Maher Chmaytelli and Nayla Razzouk: May 16, 2013 Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) will start producing crude at Iraq’s Majnoon oil field as early as next month and plans to increase energy investments in Saudi Arabia, its regional vice president said. Output from Majnoon, one of Iraq’s largest oil fields, will start “around mid-year” [...]

News on Irish oil and gas exploration kindly supplied by a regular contributor ExxonMobil kicks off Irish drilling campaign: Financial Times-But the US oil major and its partners will be hoping to successfully replicate the …. But the field, acquired by Shell, has attracted a wave of local … US explorer Kosmos may spend $200m on Irish wells: Irish Independent-Apr 18, 2013 [...]

By Kadhim Ajrash & Nayla Razzouk – May 1, 2013 1:32 PM GMT+0100 Royal Dutch Shell Plc. (RDSA) and Mitsubishi Corp. (8058) started operations at a $17-billion joint venture to capture gas from some of Iraq’s largest oil fields. The Basrah Gas Co. project, the biggest of its kind, captures so-called associated gas flared from [...]

By Associated Press, Updated: Wednesday, May 1, 1:16 PM BAGHDAD — Royal Dutch Shell says it has officially kicked off a multibillion-dollar project to tap natural gas in Iraq’s south.The $17 billion joint venture will gather, process and market associated gas, a by-product of producing oil, from three oil fields in the petroleum-rich province of [...]

By Khalid Al-Ansary and Nayla Razzouk on April 11, 2013 Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) and Mitsubishi Corp. (8058) will start capturing gas from Iraq’s oil fields next week in a $17 billion project known as Basra Gas Co. “Basra Gas Co. will start operations officially on April 15,” said Ali Hussain Khudayir, director general [...]

Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor Niger Delta fishermen want N4.32b from Shell: P.M. News-We are appealing to Federal Government, Shell Company and NOSDRA to look into the hardship caused by the oil spill on our members in the … Kiobel case: Corporate accountability for human rights abuses: [...]

Arif Mohammed, Reuters: Saturday, 16 March 2013 Royal Dutch Shell will spend more than $1 billion this year developing one of Iraq major oilfields, where it will resume operations on May 1, officials said on Saturday. “The figure for the budget will exceed one billion dollars,” said Mehdi Badi, the head of the joint management [...]

Selection of Shell related article links kindly supplied by a regular contributor Scope of damage to Shell drill vessel more clear: Alaska Dispatch-The Kulluk, a floating rig that’s been used in Shell’s offshore oil and gas exploration in Alaska’s Arctic, suffered damage “consistent with what is … The Cordova Times – Opinion: We’ve been warned: [...]

Florian Neuhof: Sept 28, 2012 Baghdad has denied reports Royal Dutch Shell will become the latest oil major to set up shop in the autonomous Kurdish north. “We don’t have any discussions with the Kurdish regional government [KRG] about working in the region,” a statement released by the office of Iraq’s deputy prime minister for [...]

By Kadhim Ajrash on September 26, 2012 Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) said it isn’t in talks with authorities in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region about energy projects in the northern area, a government spokesman said. Hans Nijkamp, Shell’s country chairman for Iraq, spoke during a meeting with the deputy prime minister for energy affairs, Hussain [...]

Wed Sept 26, 2012 12:50pm EDT * Baghdad angry over reports Shell in talks -govt sources * Shell says that in time it wants to work in all of Iraq (Reuters) – Iraq said on Wednesday that Royal Dutch Shell has denied starting talks with Iraqi Kurdistan to sign energy deals with the semi-autonomous region. [...]

DUBAI, Sept 18 | Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:33pm IST (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell’s Majnoon oilfield in Iraq, hampered by pipeline construction delays, may miss a 2012 target of 175,000 barrels per day. “It would be fair to say the progress has been slower than we originally hoped,” Mark Carne, executive vice president for [...]

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Published: Sunday, 26 Aug 2012 | 9:40 AM ET BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Delays in Iraq’s pipeline construction threaten to stall production at Royal Dutch Shell’s <RDSa.L> Majnoon oilfield for at least three months, forcing the field to miss a 2012 target of 175,000 barrels per day, oil ministry documents showed.Wary of losses, Shell has asked [...]

BAGHDAD | Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:10pm EDT (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) plans to start pumping gas from its gas joint venture in southern Iraq in the next three weeks at 60 million cubic feet per day, Iraq said on Wednesday. Shell and Mitsubishi Corporation (8058.T) signed a $17 billion deal with Iraq [...]