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Total Shifts Iraq Focus To Kurdistan
Christophe de Margerie, the chief executive of Total SA has said he was considering possible investments in Kurdistan, and added he did not plan to chase contracts in Baghdad's next licensing round, Reuters has reported. "From what we are hearing the conditions of the fourth bidding round in Iraq do not appear very attractive," de Margerie told a press conference
| Ameinfo.com
Iraq opens new oil export terminal in Persian Gulf
BAGDHAD (AP) -- Iraq inaugurated a new offshore oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf on Sunday in a vital step to ease infrastructure constraints and to bring sorely needed cash for reconstruction after decades of war and international sanctions
| AP
Tamar developers sign $680 mln Israeli natgas deal
JERUSALEM Feb 12 (Reuters) - The U.S.-Israeli consortium developing the Tamar natural gas field off Israel's coast said on Sunday it had signed a 15-year deal to supply an Israeli power plant operator with an estimated $680 million worth of gas
|Reuters
Fresh oil spill from Eni oil well in Bayelsa
An environmental group, Environmental Rights Action (ERA), says there is a new spill on