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South Kurdistan oil & gas development
Topic Started: Nov 17 12, 1:25 (649,193 Views)
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RT - Kurdistan's oil. A matter of dispute between Baghdad and Ankara.

Maliki's Adviser - "i-rack refuses any oil deal between Kurdistan and turkey"

Maliki's Adviser - "Article 111 of the i-racki constitution clearly states that only the central government has the right and capability of signing those kind of deals."

Maliki's Adviser - "Kurdistan does not have the right to sign any oil deal with any party without the central government's consent."
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WesternZagros Starts Garmian Drilling

By John Lee.

WesternZagros Resources has announced that it has started its latest Garmian Block drilling program in the South Kurdistan (KRG).

The Mil Qasim Upper Bakhtiari-1 well was spudded on May 19, 2013. This is the first of a planned three-well program to test the potential of the shallow Upper Bakhtiari Formation.

With the two deeper Hasira-1 and Baram-1 well included, this is also the first of the Company’s five well Garmian drilling program planned for 2013.

Simon Hatfield (pictured), CEO of WesternZagros commented:

“Spudding this well is a key step in testing the Upper Bakhtiari Formation, a new reservoir which exhibited oil shows when we drilled the Mil Qasim-1 well in 2011/2012. Subsequent review of logs and seismic data identified a relatively shallow, low-cost prospect.

“We are also on track with our higher impact Garmian wells: at Hasira-1 the rig is being assembled for spudding in the next few weeks; and at Baram-1 the site construction is advancing and the rig is being transported for a mid-third quarter spud.

“Also, at Kurdamir-3 we are making good drilling progress. With four active rigs, 2013 promises to be the busiest year in our history to date.“

GARMIAN BLOCK (Operated by WesternZagros)

Upper Bakhtiari Drilling Program

Upper Bakhtiari-1 was spudded on the crest of the Mil Qasim Structure. It is the first of three wells planned to explore the potential of the shallow (500 to 700 metres depth) Upper Bakhtiari Formation in the southern part of the Garmian Block. Testing results are anticipated in the third quarter of 2013.
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South Kurdistan (KRG) Announces Plans for Second Oil Pipeline to Turkey

ERBIL, Kurdistan – South Kurdistan (KRG) intends to build a second pipeline for oil exports to Turkey, following Ankara’s agreement with US oil giant ExxonMobil for joint oil exploration in the autonomous enclave, an oil official in Erbil said.

Ali Balo, oil advisor in the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), said that the pipeline would daily export 500,000 barrels of heavy crude – requiring special buyers – from oil fields in the districts of Akre, Shekhan and Bardarash.

He said that would be in addition to another oil pipeline into Turkey, with a daily capacity of 400,000 barrels, that has been nearly completed. “That project is scheduled to finish soon. It has less than 20 kilometers to reach Turkey,” said Balo, who works at the KRG’s Ministry of Natural Resources.

The breakthrough announced by Balo follows a visit to the United States by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his announcement of joint exploration deals in the South Kurdistan with ExxonMobil.

“The KRG has decided to install the second pipeline into Turkey that is capable of exporting 500,000 barrels of crude oil per day,” following Erdogan’s US visit, Balo confirmed.

“The giant petroleum company ExxonMobil and the Turkish government have reached an agreement on oil production in the South Kurdistan” he added.

“Erdogan’s statement was not a surprise as Turkey has been working on this matter for the past two years,” Balo told Rudaw. “Turkey has ambitions to become one of the world’s economic powers, and that ambition demands a large amount of energy,” Balo added. “Erdogan himself adopted the policy to work with the South Kurdistan to export oil through his country.”

The announcement of the second pipeline, and that ExxonMobil has decided to work with Turkey on oil exploration in the landlocked South Kurdistan, is a setback for Baghdad.

The Shiite central government has long maintained that all oil deals in the autonomous enclave should go through Baghdad, and that any direct agreements with the KRG are illegal. But the KRG insists that the constitution allows independent oil exports, and accuses Baghdad of not paying the operating costs for oil companies working in the region.

Until now, Washington has leaned toward Baghdad’s argument, discouraging the KRG from direct oil deals on grounds that more economic independence would encourage the Kurds in their ambitions to declare an independent homeland, leading to Iraq’s division.

Balo argued that Erdogan’s statement regarding Turkey’s oil deals with the KRG is the message to Baghdad that the deals are legal and transparent. He said that the goal behind the agreement between Turkey and ExxonMobil was to bring the US on board.

“Four months ago, a delegation from the Turkish government went to Washington to convince the White House officials to support the KRG exporting oil through Turkey,” Balo said.

“ExxonMobil is a giant American oil company which has economic benefits for the US. That is why, after the Turkish delegation’s visit to the White House, Turkey and ExxonMobil signed an agreement allowing the American oil companies to have a share in the oil deals,” Balo explained.

ExxonMobil first signed oil deals with the KRG in November 2012, which encouraged other large concerns, such as Chevron and Russia’s Gazprom to follow suit.

Balo said that Turkey would not receive discounted oil “Turkey has to pay the same amount as the other recipient countries. It still benefits from the deals as Kurdistan is a close source of energy for the country,” he added.

The South Kurdistan’s oil reserves are estimated at around 45 billion barrels, but Balo said that was expected to rise to 70 billion barrels. More than 50 oil companies have signed oil deals with the South Kurdistan.

Balo expressed doubt that Erbil and Baghdad would resolve their energy dispute anytime soon.

“An agreement on the issues, including oil issues, between Baghdad and Erbil was signed last month. Soon after, Baghdad officials said what was signed was not an agreement, but a decision to create committees to resolve the issues,” Balo said.

He said that if Baghdad continues to ignore resolving the issues, then KRG has no choice but to continue exporting oil without seeking Baghdad’s consent.

Balo said that Baghdad was failing to honor agreements to provide refined fuel to the South Kurdistan, complaining that the government was not even providing half the seven million liters of gas needed per day.

The autonomous South South Kurdistan’s oil refineries currently produce only 1.3 million liters of gas per day, but that is expected to rise to nearly four million liters a day in the near future, he said.

http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/210520131
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Until now, Washington has leaned toward Baghdad’s argument, discouraging the KRG from direct oil deals on grounds that more economic independence would encourage the Kurds in their ambitions to declare an independent homeland, leading to Iraq’s division.

sorry but we were never part of such a shitty chaotic country in the first place, going back ti 1921, thanks to french and Brits we now are! :angry
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Washington is smart. Say one thing from a Washington spokesperson, and do another thing on the ground with Exxon. Essentially, Washington and Exxon are linked to each other, and no doubt that they have made an agreement of some sort.
"Kurdino! Bibin yek; eger hûn nebin yek, hûn ê herin yek bi yek." - Cigerxwîn.
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^^ agreed. sorry irackis, politics is a dirty game :P

it seems like euphrates will never get to see maliki order of the 2nd hand Israeli made f16s haha
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Turkey, ExxonMobil going ahead with gas project in South Kurdistan (KRG)

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Before his departure for Washington, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced, “We will undertake joint exploration with ExxonMobil in South Kurdistan (KRG).” This is how he stated Turkey’s readiness to make a presence in the autonomous South Kurdistan (KRG), not despite the US, but with it.

Speaking at an airport news conference before his departure, Erdogan revealed an important cooperative venture in South Kurdistan (KRG). He said, “We have taken a step to begin oil exploration with ExxonMobil, together with the (KRG) officials. We will develop these steps further during my US visit.”

This was Erdogan’s way of saying that the region’s less costly oil and natural gas resources will be available to the world via Turkey, and that the US firm Exxon was cooperating alongside Turkey in this venture. Erdogan noted that the South Kurdistan (KRG) administration has a constitutional right to undertake such an action. “It is the right of that administration to cooperate in this action with Turkey,” Erdogan said.

State-owned Turkish Petroleum [TPAO] will be working with ExxonMobil. This joint venture with ExxonMobil has great significance. The following are the main features of this oil and natural gas deal:

● The prime minister is describing KRG’s selection of Turkey as a partner that will receive 17% of oil revenues as something that it is legally entitled to do, and a “most natural right.” By announcing joint exploration with ExxonMobil, Erdogan is telling the US, “Your company is there and we are working together.”
● Erdogan is also telling the Baghdad government, which is unhappy with the Turkish presence in KRG, that “the US is with us.”
● This step means opening up KRG’s vast oil and natural resources to the world. For Turkey it means cheaper access to natural gas and oil resources, only 150-200 km from its border.
● Turkey’s energy costs are too high. Instead of paying an average of $450 for 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas purchased from Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan, Turkey will now be paying $200-250 for this amount.
● With a pipeline, the region’s 3.2 trillion cubic meters of natural gas reserves will be transported to Turkey and via Turkey, to the world.
After Israel’s apology to Turkey, the green light has been given for energy deals in the region. Last week, Turkey’s Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said Turkey was ready to cooperate with Israel and Greek Cypriots in the eastern Mediterranean; we will soon learn about the US role in this cooperation.

Source: http://kurdpress.com/
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Turkey in talks with US Chevron for South Kurdistan: Sources

[18:14] 13/May/22

PNA - Merve Erdil - Hurriyet ,After Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s announcement that a Turkish company would be partnering with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Exxon Mobil to carry out oil exploration in KRG before his US visit last week, Turkey is now reportedly in talks with U.S. energy company Chevron about activities in South South Kurdistan.

Turkish officials and the executives of Chevron have been talking about oil and natural gas pipelines that are planned to be built from the KRG through Turkey, according to sources.

However, Exxon is also looking for a partnership with Turkey in the KRG, and Chevron’s approach to Turkey is reportedly different to Exxon’s. Chevron executives and officials from Turkey’s Energy Ministry are also negotiating on the construction and the financing of the new pipelines, the sources said.

During Erdogan’s U.S. visit, he was expected to seek Obama’s support for further energy deals that Turkish companies are hoping to strike in KRG. “An agreement was in place for a Turkish company to become a partner with Exxon and the KRG, and details will be clearer after the U.S. visit,” Erdogan had said. Exxon, a global oil company based in Texas, was the first to sign up for exploration deals with the KRG. Others including Chevron, Totali and Russia’s Gazprom Neft have followed.

In November, Baghdad blocked Turkish national energy firm TPAO from bidding for an oil exploration contract, a decision that Erdogan had said was not “smart business.”

http://www.peyamner.com/English/PNAnews.aspx?ID=311430
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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South Kurdistan (KRG) crude sales to rise as exports reach second Turkish port

LONDON,— South Kurdistan's crude oil sales to world markets, deemed illegal by Baghdad, are set to rise by nearly 50 percent next month as trucks start deliveries to a second export terminal in Turkey, industry sources in the region said on Wednesday.

Crude exports from the Taq Taq oilfield in the autonomous South Kurdistan to Turkey's Mersin port started at a trickle in early January and have risen to just over 40,000 barrels per day (bpd).

They are expected to hit around 60,000 bpd by the end of June as trucks unload at the neighbouring Dortyol terminal in southern Turkey.

Oil lies at the heart of a feud between the central government and Kurdistan. Baghdad says it alone has the right to control exports and sign deals, while the Kurds say their right to do so is enshrined in Iraq's federal constitution.

In retaliation, Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organisation (SOMO) sent letters warning customers not to touch any oil that had not been marketed by SOMO and the ministry intends to sue producers, namely Anglo-Turkish firm Genel Energy.

Turkish intermediary Powertrans has found a steady stream of customers in Northwest Europe for its crude and condensate sales. Major oil firms with interests in southern Iraq have opted not to participate in tenders.

Germany's Select Energy lifted the first two Taq Taq cargoes in April. The grade is a light sour crude, a highly sought after quality.

One was delivered to Klesch's Heide refinery in northern Germany and the other discharged in Rotterdam.

Select is loading a third larger 80,000 tonne cargo.

Austria's OMV, already black-listed by Baghdad due to upstream stakes in Kurdistan, also bought one cargo in May, sources said.

Iraq's central government says Kurdistan is expected to provide 250,000 bpd towards Iraq's 2013 oil export target of 2.9 million bpd.

Adding condensate exports, the total amount of Kurdish oil exports would rise next month to nearly 80,000 bpd, or about 40 percent of the region's total oil production.

Kurdish oil had been exported through a Baghdad-controlled pipeline to Turkey before drying up last December due to a payment dispute between Erbil and Baghdad.

Moving oil to world markets by pipeline is far cheaper and logistically easier than via truck. Exports by truck are a temporary solution until the autonomous northern region completes its own pipeline to Turkey.

Exports via the new 300,000 bpd pipeline are unlikely to start before the year's end, a source familiar with the matter said, particularly as it is still not clear how it will join-up with existing Turkish infrastructure.

By Julia Payne and Peg Mackey
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/22/kurdistan-oil-exports-idUSL6N0E32I220130522
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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DNO Hits 100,000 bpd Milestone at Tawke

DNO International ASA, the Norwegian oil and gas company, announced today that oil production from the Tawke field in the South Kurdistan of i-rack has averaged over 100,000 barrels a day during the previous 72 hours as the Company conducts well and pipeline deliverability tests following its 2012 drilling program and facilities upgrades.

“We are very pleased with the performance of the field,” said Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani (pictured), DNO International’s Executive Chairman. “Having met this first deliverability milestone, we continue to reinvest to double Tawke production capacity.”

DNO International holds a 55 percent interest in and operates the Tawke license. Genel Energy plc holds 25 percent and the Kurdistan Regional Government the remaining 20 percent interest.

(Source: DNO)
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Iraq vows action against Kurdistan crude sales: deputy PM

^^ good luck you loser, according to you mr 2nd baghdad bob, Exxon pulled out of Kurdistan long time ago!!?? :lolz:
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Genel Energy and Gulf Keystone make new Kurdistan oil discovery

[17:31] 13/May/30

PNA - Genel Energy (LON:GENL) and Gulf Keystone (LON:GKP) have confirmed a new commercial oil discovery in the South Kurdistan (KRG).

The Genel operated Ber Bahr exploration well was drilled to a depth 3,933 metres and it encountered good oil shows over a 300 metre interval.

Initial testing failed to produce oil flows. However, a sidetrack has now been tested and has produced flows at a rate of 2,100 barrels of oil per day.

"The Ber Bahr well adds a further commercial oil discovery to Genel's already significant KRI resource base,” said Dr John Hurst, Genel’s head of exploration.

“We plan to begin a phased development of the field in the second half of this year."

Meanwhile, speaking from Gulf Keystone’s point of view, GKP chief operating officer John Gerstenlauer said: "This is another significant discovery and the fifth across the four blocks the company has an interest in.

“It comes during an exciting year for the company as we move towards becoming a significant producer in the region."

The two London listed oil firms each own a 40% stake in the Ber Bahr block, while the Kurdistan Regional Government owns the other 20%.

http://www.peyamner.com/English/PNAnews.aspx?ID=312044
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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KAR the future South Kurdistan oil company :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9PEf0pbvzU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqDm4pGqhLI
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Alan do you know how much of a share do this company own KAR?
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i'd say 100% ;-)
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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i'd say 100% ;-)
Oh shet I'm dumb lol. I meant how much do KAR own of Kurdish oil? rofl
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Oh, the Whole of Khurmala dome is run by KAR, which i think is the biggest oil field of SK.
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Egypt negotiates to deliver natural gas to homes in Kurdistan

Shafaq News / Egypt Gas Co. announced on Tuesday, conducting negotiations to agree on a number of projects, including the delivery of gas to homes.

“There are intensive contacts underway, to agree on the company's participation in the reconstruction through the implementation of the company for a number of projects to deliver gas to homes,” The head of Gas Company, Fouad Rashad said in a statement briefed by “Shafaq News”.

“An Egyptian delegation from the Company visited Iraq to study, and access all the data of the agreement”.

“The company is looking to participate in the delivery of natural gas to homes in Kurdistan,” he added.

http://www.shafaaq.com/en/business/6300
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Listen to turkish paranoia at 55:09 lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA8CClbp3ys
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Keystone announces fifth oil discovery in Kurdistan

Gulf Keystone British Company for oil exploration announced more oil discoveries in South Kurdistan.
The operations director of the British company, Mr John Gristinlor said in statement that "The company has discovered encouraging commercial quantities of oil in Bahar well field.”

Mr Gristinlor according to Express British newspaper added that "The discovery of oil in Bahar well field in South Kurdistan is another important discovery which is the fifth discovery in the four areas that company owns shares in it.”

He pointed out that the company plans to begin implementation of a series of test drilling operations, considering that this discovery came at an important time for the company as it moves to become 1 of the oil producing companies in the region.

The 2 English Turkish Genel Energy companies and British Keystone possess 40% of the shares in Bahar well field in Kurdistan.

Shikhan field is considered the most important investments in Gulf Keystone in Kurdistan as it aims to reach volume production to 150 thousand barrels per day of oil equivalent by 2015 and achieve full production after that.

http://hawlergov.org/en/article.php?id=1370453073
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Hmmm is this true?

Read that its that Luabi who said this... So i guess not

http://www.upstreamonline.com/hardcopy/news/article1329205.ece New hope on KRG exports By Nassir Shirkhani 06 June 2013 22:59 GMT THE Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has reached a new agreement with i-rack’s central government to resume exports from the semi-autonomous region at a rate of 250,000 barrels per day.
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Hasn't similar reports been made in the past?
"Kurdino! Bibin yek; eger hûn nebin yek, hûn ê herin yek bi yek." - Cigerxwîn.
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Hasn't similar reports been made in the past?
Not about restarting exports i think?
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Bar raised for Kurdish oil estimates

OSLO, Norway, June 11 (UPI) -- Norwegian oil and gas company DNO International said testing at fields in KRG may indicate oil reserves are near the 1 billion barrel mark.

DNO said it tested its Tawke-17 well at a rate of 1,500 barrels of oil per day and its Tawke-20 well at an average rate of 8,000 bpd.

DNO Executive Chairman Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani said testing was ongoing at both sites. Preliminary results were encouraging, he said Tuesday.

"We are very pleased that initial Tawke-17 results are in line with the company's pre-drill estimates," he said in a statement. "This discovery ... likely bumps recoverable reserves on the Tawke license to the 1 billion barrel mark."

DNO has a majority stake in the Tawke field in the Kurdistan region of i-rack alongside Turkish energy company Genel Energy and the Kurdistan regional government.

The semiautonomous Kurdish government gave Genel permission in January to export crude oil to Turkey by road shipments. Genel is working to convert a natural gas pipeline to facilitate additional oil deliveries.

i-racki Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki visited the region last weekend to try to settle protracted political conflicts with the KRG. Export restrictions had been in place as a sign of growing frustration with the central i-racki government over oil laws in the country.



http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2013/06/11/Bar-raised-for-Kurdish-oil-estimates/UPI-99601370954027/
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Golden oil of South Kurdistan raises tensions with Baghdad

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Federal and regional governments locked in bitter dispute over revenue-sharing as new pipeline into Turkey nears completion
On a hot and dusty plateau in South Kurdistan, engineers in hard hats are gathered around a section of new pipeline as they check final test data before oil starts flowing for the first time directly across the border to Turkey. Twin flare towers behind a bank of storage tanks send viscous black smoke billowing into the sky.


The powerful smell of sulphur is an indicator of the quality of what lies underground. "It's the champagne of Kurdistan," grins Joe Stein, a softly spoken Texan who is operations manager for the joint Turkish-Chinese venture at Taq Taq, part of the last great onshore oilfield in the world. "It's very light. It's very good for refineries. It's high grade and easy to produce. It's golden oil."

Hydrocarbon wealth is transforming this strategic corner of the Middle East at a time of dramatic change and extreme violence across the region ? elsewhere in i-rack itself, where a post-2006 record of 1,000 people were killed in May alone, as well as in neighbouring Syria.

With an estimated 45bn barrels of reserves ? the fourth largest in the world ? and a century's worth of natural gas, the Kurdistan regional government (KRG) has become a big player in a geologically exciting but politically sensitive market.

In just a few weeks a final section of the new pipeline from Taq Taq will tie in to the border metering station at Fishkhabour, allowing 300,000 barrels of crude a day to begin flowing into Turkey. Targets are 1m barrels a day in 2015, and 2m in 2019.

Crucially, this is being done without the approval of the federal government in Baghdad, which is locked in a bitter dispute with the KRG over the terms of the i-racki constitution and the revenue-sharing that is supposed to flow from it.

Economic independence ? and perhaps more ? is suddenly within sight for a sizeable chunk of the world's biggest group of stateless people.

"Sharing wealth is a fundamental instrument of power," argues Ashti Hawrami, the KRG's natural resources minister. "By not implementing the constitution, Baghdad is encouraging instability and disintegration. The only way we can survive is by having economic development. Slogans about democracy are not enough."

Officials in Hewlêr , the KRG's booming capital, complain that Nouri al-Maliki, i-rack's Shia prime minister, is wedded to the same authoritarian style and centralised administration that the Kurds hoped had gone with Saddam Hussein. Based on their share of the country's population, the KRG is supposed to get 17% of national revenues. Baghdad in turn accuses the Kurds of acting unconstitutionally. The KRG retorts that whatever they earn, they will pay 83% into the national treasury.

"There is a huge gap between this i-rack and the other i-rack," muses Fuad Hussein, an adviser to the KRG president, Massoud Barzani, whose photograph adorns every government office. "My generation grew up in i-rack and we were part of the Kurdish resistance. The new generation already has freedom. They will not accept losing it again."

Other contentious issues include payment for Kurdish peshmerga fighters, compensation for the victims of Saddam's genocide and the status of disputed areas such as Kerkûk, from where Kurds were ethnically cleansed. But oil and the new link with Turkey are giving the KRG a strong hand to play in the game of nations.

Seeking to mend fences, Maliki visited Hewlêr for the first time in two years on Sunday, but his talks with Barzani were largely symbolic. "Neither I nor President Barzani has a magic wand," he quipped.

Barzani had warned that the latest contacts with Baghdad were the last chance, with the oil multinationals now calling the shots. Exxon Mobil's landmark agreement with Turkey, risking retaliation against its own operations in southern i-rack, is at odds with US government policy. Maliki has condemned it outright as illegal. But Chevron, Total and Russia's Gazprom are taking risks too. Fifty companies have invested $20bn (£13bn).

i-rack has had an oil industry since the 1920s but Kurdistan's was started from scratch in 2006 because it was never developed under Saddam, who milked the country's hydrocarbon wealth to buy weapons to kill Kurds in the infamous Anfal campaign and to invade Iran and Kuwait. "This is all oil i-rack never knew it had," says an official in Hewlêr . "It's intoxicating. There is a sense of history about what is happening here."

The row over the unpaid revenues is grimly familiar, says the independent journalist Hiwa Osman. "For the KRG, it feels as if it's still dealing with the same Baghdad. Its economic sanctions are straight from Saddam's playbook."

Kurdistan's stability is a strong pull for foreign investors. Security at Taq Taq is run by a UK company employing former South African special forces, with the KRG's oil-protection force guarding the perimeter and Ashaish, its CIA-trained intelligence service, watching closely. Peshmerga checkpoints line the roads to Mosul and Kerkûk, where al-Qaida bombings are as frequent as in Baghdad.

Hewlêr has become the exploration capital of the world, and the bars of its best hotels echo with multilingual banter about oil and associated deals.

The Turkish energy company Genel, partnered with China's Sinopec at Taq Taq, is run by Tony Hayward, the former BP chief executive who was forced to quit after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

In the face of such intense interest, awareness is growing of the effect on the KRG economy and the urgent need for a skilled local workforce. "Now everyone wants to go to university to do an oil-related degree," says a young professional woman, "but we don't yet have the resources." Her husband has just quit a secure civil service job to move into private-sector oil services. It looks like a smart and potentially lucrative career choice.

Outside of government circles, some suspect Turkey's motives ? not surprising given its historic hostility to the Kurds. There is a vivid reminder in the shadow of Hewlêr 's ancient citadel, where young men collect signatures in support of Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed PKK leader whose peace talks with Recep Tayyip Erdogan are another important strand of the region's shifting geopolitical landscape.

"Oil in Kurdistan is not just about i-rack," argues Asos Hardi, of the independent newspaper Awene. "It's about relations with Syria, Iran and with the US, which opposes what the KRG is doing. Everyone is using Kurdistan.

"Erdogan wants to play the Kurdish card. That's his game, not an independent Kurdistan."

Exactly how and where oil revenues will be spent is another worry. Hawrami's officials highlight "capacity-building" agreements under which foreign companies pay for facilities that give ordinary Kurds a share of the region's wealth. Norway is cited as an example of prudent planning and diversification. Gorran, the main opposition party, complains of corruption and nepotism in Barzani's KDP. But Kamal Kirkuki, the party spokesman, dismisses "negative propaganda by an unhealthy and immature opposition".

Uncertainty about the future has been a staple of Kurdish life for decades. But Taq Taq and other oilfields, Turkey's volatile politics and voracious energy needs, and the ambitions of the world's biggest oil companies are creating new options. For the moment the Kurds of i-rack seem to be improving their bargaining position to try to force a reluctant Baghdad to comply with the federal constitution. If that does not happen, then all bets are off.

"i-rack is going to hell," says Hussein, Barzani's adviser. "If we cannot live together we must talk about something else. We Kurds are not part of the conflict between Shia and Sunnis. But if there is a fire in the house next door, it will burn you too in the end. And there is no fireman."

Foreigners have heard this message, and tend to agree. "i-rack is disintegrating slowly," observed an Erbil-based diplomat. "Over the last two years the Kurds have been pushed into a corner. Baghdad is no longer their point of reference so they started looking elsewhere. Now Turkey is giving them the possibility of making money out of oil. But oil could be a trigger for the division of i-rack. If there is nA troubled history

i-rack's 5 million Kurds have experienced relative stability since the end of the 1991 Gulf war, when they were liberated from Saddam Hussein and lived under a no-fly zone protected by US and British air power.

A persecuted people who famously had "no friends but the mountains", they were allied with the post-cold war world's only superpower. i-rack's 2005 federal constitution gave the Kurdistan regional government (KRG) an unprecedented degree of self-government.

But the last few months have also held out the prospect of change for the 14-17 million Kurds in Turkey, where the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is in negotiations with the jailed Abdallah Öcalan, leader of the PKK and its 30-year insurrection.

Syria's 1.6 million Kurds have made big gains since the uprising against Bashar al-Assad and now control the north-east of the country ? though their status has bedevilled relations with the Arab opposition.

Kurds in Iran (7 million) enjoy minority rights but experience persecution. The Tehran government is concerned that PKK fighters leaving Turkey may now launch attacks inside Iran. Öcalan has talked of creating a "stateless union" between Kurds in Turkey, i-rack, Syria and Iran, which would increase integration while maintaining national borders.

Kurdish leaders everywhere are painfully conscious of a history of oppression and betrayal by supposed friends. Hopes for statehood after the first world war came to nothing and the British put down a Kurdish revolt in i-rack in the 1920s. In 1946 the short-lived Mahabad republic in Iran was abandoned by the Soviet Union. In 1975 the US withdrew its support for an i-racki Kurdish rebellion mounted from Iran and secretly aided by Israel, as part of a rapprochement between Baghdad and the Shah of Iran. "Covert action," Henry Kissinger told Mullah Mustafa Barzani, father of the current KRG president, "is not missionary work."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/10/oil-iraqi-kurdistan-baghdad
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