Sunday, May 12, 2024
New licenses in Iraq to extract ‘huge’ oil and gas, 12 MAY
New licenses in Iraq to extract ‘huge’ oil and gas
Shafaq News / Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa Al-Sudani, on Saturday, launched the licenses of the supplementary fifth round and the entire sixth round, which includes a total of 29 projects for oil and gas exploration fields and patches, distributed among 12 governorates.
The Iraqi government says these strategic projects will contribute to increasing investments in those provinces, helping to improve their economic and service reality.
Iraq expects to obtain more than (3459) million record cubic feet per day of gas, and more than one million barrels of oil per day, through these two rounds.
The last time Iraq, the second-largest producer in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) after Saudi Arabia, held a licensing round in 2018 was the fifth round.
Meanwhile, Oil Minister Hayyan Abdul Ghani oversaw the opening of bids by advanced companies to invest in the East Baghdad – Northern Extensions field, and announced that one of the Chinese companies won the contract.
Iraq hopes to announce an increase in oil reserves of more than 160 billion barrels, Ghani said.
According to official estimates internationally, Iraq has the fourth largest proven crude oil reserves in the world at 145.019 billion barrels after Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Iran respectively, according to the annual report of OPEC, while it has a proven reserves of natural gas of 132 trillion cubic feet.
Iraq relies on exporting crude oil by up to about 95% in preparing the country’s general budget.
For his part, economist Nabil Al-Marsami said that the Chinese “Chungman” company (ZPEC) won the investment in the development of the “East Baghdad – Northern Extensions” oil field, as part of a government bid held after a competition with “KAR”.
He said that this comes as Iraq continues to head to China after the exit of American and European companies.
The field east of Baghdad is located in the area that extends from the east of the city of Essaouira in the southeast to the Nabai area in the northwest, categorically east of the center of Baghdad, and the length of the field is more than (120) km wide (5-7) km. The number of wells dug in the field reached (97) wells, while the main reservoirs in this field are the fertile and fertile reservoirs from the upper era and the composition of the lower Cretaceous era and that these oil Cretaceous clusters are distributed over the field.
https://www.shafaq.com/ar/اقتصـاد/تراخيص-جديدة-في-العراق-لاستخراج-كميات-ضخمة-من-النفط-والغاز
"RV UPDATE" BY FNU LNU , 12 MAY
Fnu Lnu
Question: "What type of paperwork has to be created with the exchange...Not every teller can open a savings or checking account."
There is always an account manager or membership manager and all Bank managers and assistant managers can open accounts. If you want to make an exchange then you can also use your existing bank account no matter who it is. Just supply the routing number and account number...In my case, my bank has its SWIFT management apparatus through Wells Fargo so although I don't have, nor do I want a Wells account, my deposit will be just as fast. My SWIFT number is a WFXXXX number even [though] my bank is not a Wells bank.
The United States will NOT... repeat WILL NOT....be leaving Iraq now or in the future. The power vacuum WILL be filled by Iran and only a fool would want the US to leave IRAQ!
Iraq is worth far more than 16 trillion dollars and there is far less than 80 trillion in circulation...To espouse such inciting commentary [against this]...negates everything Dr. Shabibi has stated and everything the CBI and GOI have stated. The Dinar was worth $3.22 pre-sanctions and at that time all they had was oil at $32 dollars a barrel...
Fnu Lnu
Article quote: "Al-Kadhimi indicated that increasing the budget’s overall amount, from 199 trillion Iraqi dinars (nearly $152 billion) to 228 trillion Iraqi dinars (approximately $174.04 billion), resulted in a rise in the deficit, revealing that the budget is still being discussed in the Council of Ministers and would likely be presented to the Iraqi Parliament next month." It would logically follow that a revaluation would be likely before next month's USA confab.
[Response to Pimpy's HCL non-revenue sharing post from 3-31-2024 below]
The notion of revenue-sharing is nothing new in the Middle East. Bruni and Kuwait both do it...Revenue Watch Middle East Director Yahia Said recently returned from several months in Iraq working on the International Compact with the UN...This USIPeace Briefing summarizes the discussion. Many Iraqi citizens look to the law for what it can contribute to reconciliation, security, and welfare. The three parts of the agreement will deal with the issues of 1) revenue sharing; 2) restructuring of the ministry of oil; and 3) establishing the Iraqi National Oil Company (INOC).
It is quite clear that the HCL has intentions to codify the issue of welfare (not for government) and the number 1 issue is REVENUE SHARING. To be more specific; Section 1314 of the FY2007 Supplemental Appropriations Act [P.L.110-28] specifically identified the enactment and implementation of legislation “to ensure the equitabledistribution of hydrocarbon resources of the people of Iraq without regard to the sect or ethnicity of recipients” and “to ensure that the energy resources of Iraq benefit Sunni Arabs, Shia Arabs, Kurds, and other Iraqi citizens in an equitable manner” as benchmarks .
https://dinarevaluation.blogspot.com/2024/04/rv-update-by-fnu-lnu-2-april.html
It is disingenuous to try to say that Iraq ONLY has a net worth of 16 trillion dollars. Those calculations do not account for many factors like tourism, a monumental gold deposit that is never spoken of, port revenues, tariffs...etc.
The Dinar Mythology surrounding this EO is amazing...It says exactly NOTHING about buying Dinar. Executive Order 13303 was issued on May 22, 2003, by United States President George W. Bush to protect the Development Fund for Iraq for the rebuilding of Iraq...
Executive Order 13303 also terminates sanctions specified in EO 12722, EO 12724, EO 13290, as it applies to the development fund. In effect, EO 13303 provides an extraordinarily broad legal shield for any and all contractors and mercenaries working in Iraq on behalf of US corporations in any oil related enterprise. The Executive Order also declares a national emergency to deal with the threat to a peaceful reconstruction of Iraq, which US Presidents have renewed every year since, most recently in May 2023.https://dinarevaluation.blogspot.com/2024/03/rv-update-by-fnu-lnu-30-march.html
Oil Minister: We hope to announce that Iraq’s oil reserves will rise to more than 160 billion barrels,, 12 MAY
Oil Minister: We hope to announce that Iraq’s oil reserves will rise to more than 160 billion barrels
Economy News – Baghdad
Oil Minister Hayan Abdul Ghani on Saturday expressed hope to announce that Iraq’s oil reserves will rise to more than 160 billion barrels.
Abdul Ghani said, in his speech during the activities of the launch ceremony of the fifth and sixth supplementary licensing rounds, under the patronage and presence of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani: “The Ministry is launching today 29 promising projects within the fifth and sixth supplementary licensing rounds, to start a new phase towards the advancement of industry and oil and gas wealth after the experience of five licensing rounds launched in 2008.”
He added that “the Ministry of Oil achieved through licensing rounds the referral of 27 contracts for oil and oil and gas fields to international companies that had a significant impact on production levels and government financial revenues by adding more than 2 million barrels per day of crude oil to national production.”
He pointed out that “the fifth supplementary and sixth rounds of licenses will include 12 governorates that include investment opportunities, in addition to the maritime areas in the Arabian Gulf. These projects will contribute to economic expansion and the growth of the governorates in terms of providing jobs and gradually activating economic activity in the surrounding areas, which in turn will increase stability and the employment of labor and achieve the maximum use of gas reserves to meet the increasing needs of gas in electric power generation and other industries.”
He stressed “providing support, support and possible facilities to the winning companies in the development of oil and gas fields,” noting “the success in the liquidation sector by adding more than 360 thousand barrels per day to national production.”
He expressed his hope that “Iraq’s oil reserves will rise in the future to more than 160 billion barrels.”
https://economy-news.net/content.php?id=43310
"RV UPDATE" BY FRANK26, 12 MAY
Frank26
On the CBI website back in January of this year...the CBI started the monetary reform campaign to the Iraqi citizens...It was on January 1, 2024 that the Central Bank of Iraq displayed this green looking currency...You'll notice three zeros. What this is a 1000 but it is not what you think it is. What is the color of the 1000 note that's out there right now? Yellow/gold...What's this 1000 note that's green?
...It is a fil...They are not going to release a 1000 lower note...They're not only going to release coins made out of precious metals but they're also going to release fils in paper.
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