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South Kurdistan oil & gas development
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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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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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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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Qadir Haji Ali: the government has signed the agreement with Roseneft, while the government's legitimacy is under a serious question.

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Qadr Haji Ali one of the notable Change Movement (Gorran) leaders criticized the Kurdistan Government’s agreement with the Russian company Roseneft.
In an interview with Gorran media Qadr Haji Ali shed lights on various current political issues.

He said: ‘the agreement between KRG and Roseneft is not satisfactory because KRG’s legitimacy is under a serious question as there is no a parliament to observe it, there is no a parliament to solve its problems and taking its responsibility,’

Qadr Haji ali also said that: Patriotic Union of Kurdistan- PUK, and Kurdistan Democratic Party-KDP are obliged to explain everything to the people.

KRG exporting 650 000 to 700 000 barrels of oil on daily basis but a little money returns to Kurdistan, the big amount of the money goes for the government’s debts while we don’t know why we are in debt, and the other amount of the money goes abroad for laundering.

According to a statement released by Roseneft Company and confirmed by KRG, on 2nd of June Kurdistan Regional Government signed an agreement with Roseneft.
The delegation from KRG's headed by KRG Premier Nechirvan Barzani arrived in Russia on Wednesday participated in Petersburg International Economic Forum.

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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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Iraqi Kurdistan-Russia oil deal could have major implications for region

Posted June 12, 2017

Iraq's central government for years has opposed the sale of Iraqi oil by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in KRG. The KRG’s biggest oil sale was with Turkey in 2014, and at one time the dispute reached a crisis level with parties accusing each other of “misreading the [Iraqi] Constitution." However, as the oil argument was growing, the Islamic State (IS) invaded Mosul in KRG. When IS began to threaten the nearby Kurdish region, oil squabbles were put on the back burner. Still, the KRG quietly continued its oil trade.

The KRG had serious problems coping simultaneously with the war with IS and its economic crisis. Now, with the IS threat diminishing, the oil trade is back on the agenda as the KRG energetically pursues more oil deals. The first major recent agreement was just made with geographically distant but politically near Russia.

The KRG’s presence at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, held June 1-3, was seen as routine. But news of an oil accord focused attention on the Kurds. KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani signed a 20-year-long oil deal with Russia’s Rosneft. According to the June 2 agreement, Russia will buy Kurdish oil and refine it in Germany. As a first step, Russia will invest $3 billion in KRG territory.

The deal continues and reinforces one signed in February on the purchase and sale of crude for 2017-19, according to Kurdish news website Rudaw. The deal gives Rosneft access to regional transport with a throughput capacity of 700,000 barrels per day, which will be expanded to as much as 1 million barrels per day by the end of this year, Rosneft said in a statement.

Now Russia — along with the United States and Turkey — is also a key player in the Kurdish oil market. But does this new client signify more than just money for the region?

According to Jabbar Kadir, who had served as an adviser to former KRG Prime Minister Barham Salih, Russians see the Kurds as key players in the future of the region.

“Russia believes Iraq will be divided, if not into three states, [then] at least into three federal regions. That is why [Russia] has slowed down working with the central government. If Baghdad opposes the deal, the KRG and Russians will tell them, ‘You are making deals with Americans. They explore oil in the Kurdish region. We will do the same,’” Kadir told Al-Monitor.

“You cannot ignore the political ramifications of all this. Until now, Turkey used to manage the oil affairs of Kurdistan and impose its own conditions. It won’t be able to do this with Rosneft. That is why this is a landmark deal for the future of Kurdistan. But there has to be transparency. People should be told what the deal is, how much Russians will earn and how much the Kurds [will get],” he added.

And how will the United States and Turkey react to their shares of the pie getting smaller? Kadir believes the United States won’t be all that happy with the deal. The Kurds must have consulted Ankara and Washington in advance so as not to upset the Americans too much, as they know the United States has strategic ties with Iraq.

Aydin Selcen, a former diplomat and Turkey’s first consul general to Hewlêr, thinks Rosneft’s purchase of KRG crude oil is a significant move. He told Al-Monitor that the key aspect of the deal will be Rosneft’s use of the KRG pipeline and eventually increasing its capacity. Selcan doesn’t think the deal will lead to major tensions among Ankara, Baghdad and Hewlêr, though some repercussions are likely.

“We don’t know if Ankara had advance notice of the deal, but given Nechirvan Barzani’s frequent visits to Turkey and his friendly relations with [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan, this was likely. Now a heavy player like Rosneft is going to buy Kurdish oil and refine it in its Germany facilities. There have to be political consequences. It is likely that some in Ankara are already thinking about how it will all affect Turkey,” Selcen added.

The KRG doesn’t care who its customers are; it doesn't want to be limited to a single buyer. The more diversified the customers, the better for the Kurdish economy. There is no doubt that the Russian oil deal strengthens the hands of the Kurdish administration. If the controversial Kurdish independence referendum scheduled for September ends with a “yes” vote, the oil deal could play a major role toward independence. The pact with Russia could actually encourage the Kurds to put aside their controversial goal of reaching the Mediterranean to market their natural resources, as the deal means their oil and natural gas will reach the sea regardless.

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/06/turkey-iraqi-kurdistan-russia-moscow-eyes-kurdish-oil.html
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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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, Genel report payment of $41.26 mln for South Kurdistan oil export

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Editorial Staff in Oil & Gas

OSLO,— DNO ASA, the Norwegian oil and gas operator confirmed on Thursday the receipt of $41.26 million from Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government as payment towards March 2017 crude oil deliveries to the export market from the Tawke field, DNO said in statement.

The funds, to be shared pro-rata by DNO and partner Genel Energy plc, include USD 34.60 million toward monthly deliveries and USD 6.65 million toward recovery of outstanding receivables, the statement said.

Tawke production in March averaged 108,853 barrels of oil per day (bopd), of which 108,513 bopd was delivered for export through Turkey.

In may DNO and Genel the receipt of $41.40 million from South Kurdistan as payment towards February 2017 crude oil deliveries to the export market from the Tawke field.

DNO ASA is a Norwegian oil and gas operator focused on the Middle East and North Africa. Founded in 1971 and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange, the Company holds stakes in onshore and offshore licenses at various stages of exploration, development and production in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Yemen, Oman, Tunisia and Somaliland.

(With files from dno.no)

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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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Tanker carrying South Kurdistan oil appears to be en route to U.S. after 3 years pause

WASHINGTON,— An oil tanker carrying Kurdish crude appears to be en route to the U.S., reviving a trade from three years ago that became a symbol of a dispute between the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq and the federal government in Baghdad.

The Aframax tanker Neverland, which normally hauls about 650,000 barrels, exited the Mediterranean Sea two days ago, according to vessel tracking data compiled by Bloomberg. A week earlier, it left a port in southern Turkey from where Kurdistan Regional Government cargoes are shipped by traders.

The KRG, which is preparing for a referendum later this year, has long been pushing for greater independence in oil sales, saying the Kurdish region wasn’t getting its share of the federal budget. The dispute escalated three years ago when Kurdish deliveries to the U.S. were blocked and Iraq threatened to take action against companies involved. Those tensions simmered down somewhat as both sides worked together to regain control of the country’s north taken by Islamic State fighters in 2014.

The Neverland’s tracks show it to be heading toward the U.S. East Coast, though it could still go elsewhere. Despite going close to full speed at 13 knots, the vessel’s destination is noted by its crew as “for orders,” a designation for ships that haven’t been given definitive sailing instructions.

Michael Howard, an adviser to the Kurdish minister of natural resources, said he was unaware of the ship’s destination.

Iraqi Prime Minister Abadi orders lawyers to block any attempt by the autonomous Kurdistan region to ship oil to the United States following reports that a tanker bearing KRG crude is en route, Iraqi Oil Report reported.

Iraq’s Oil Ministry and its lawyers have been told to take legal action against all crude exports by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), especially the tanker Neverland that appears to be heading toward the United States.

Haider al-Abadi is now reconsidering his laissez faire approach to challenging KRG exports, following news of the Neverland, which Iraqi and U.S. officials said they believe – but aren’t certain – is U.S.-bound.

The ship earlier this month collected cargo from a loading terminal at Ceyhan on Turkey’s southern Mediterranean coast, which is used to load cargoes that have come by pipeline from the Kurdish part of Iraq. A small proportion of the crude delivered from the terminal is sold by Iraq’s state oil company, known as SOMO, but all such sales this year have been shipped by pipeline to the Kirikkale refinery near Ankara, according to information from a local port agent.

If the Neverland completes its voyage across the Atlantic, it will be following a route taken by only a small number of ships carrying Kurdish crude. In mid-2014, a handful of vessels delivered more than a million barrels from the region, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

‘Smuggled’ Oil

Iraq’s federal government in Baghdad threatened to sue buyers and shippers of crude sold by the KRG after the two sides failed to agree on control of oil flows and payment receipts, dubbing any such shipments “smuggled” oil.

The tanker United Kalavryta, which loaded around 1 million barrels of Kurdish crude in June 2014 and hauled it across the Atlantic, found itself caught up in the dispute. The Baghdad government filed a lawsuit in Houston federal court to block the tanker from unloading its cargo, and a magistrate judge issued an arrest warrant and ordered U.S. marshals to seize the oil if the Kalavryta came into U.S. waters. The ship remained off the coast of Texas until the following January, retraced its journey back across the Atlantic and eventually discharged its cargo in Israel.

While Kurdish oil has been delivered to ports in Europe and, occasionally, to the Middle East and Asia, the Neverland is the first to carry it across the Atlantic since the United Kalavryta.

“It does feel like a bit of a test case,” Energy Aspects analyst Richard Mallinson said by phone. “Whilst Kurdish oil has found its home in the market, Baghdad hasn’t seemed to want to try and challenge Kurdish exports.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-22/kurdish-oil-appears-bound-for-u-s-again-after-three-year-pause
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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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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Gulf Keystone gets $15 mln payment for South Kurdistan oil exports

Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd on, an oil producer in Kurdistan said on Wednesday that the company has received a gross payment of $15 million ($12 net to GKP) from Kurdistan Regional Government KRG for Shaikan crude oil export sales in March 2017.

GKP has received a gross payment of $15.0 million in April for Shaikan crude oil export sales in January 2017.

In April the company managed to lower its annual losses after cost cuts and a debt-for-equity deal that saved the company but uncertainty remains over raising output from its main oilfield.

Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. (LSE: GKP) is a leading independent operator and producer in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the operator of the Shaikan field with current production capacity of 40,000 barrels of oil per day.

http://www.pukmedia.com/EN/EN_Direje.aspx?Jimare=41592
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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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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Kurdistan: Iraq-Iran deal over Kirkuk oil unconstitutional: Kurdish official

Hewlêr, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – The Kirkuk Provincial Council says that the Baghdad-Tehran deal over Kirkuk's oil is "unconstitutional."

This week, Iran and Iraq reached an agreement to construct a pipeline to export crude oil from the disputed territory of Kirkuk to Iran, a move which was criticized and opposed by the province’s officials.

According to a Kurdistan 24 reporter in Kirkuk, the province’s Provincial Council voiced opposition to the signed agreement and said that the deal is against the Iraqi Constitution.

The Iraqi Constitution’s Article 112 states “the federal government, with the producing regional and governorate governments, shall together formulate the necessary strategic policies to develop the oil and gas.”

Fuad Hussein, a member of the Kirkuk Provincial Council's Energy Committee, told Kurdistan 24 that any agreement related to the city’s oil has to be discussed with and agreed by the local administration otherwise it is unconstitutional.

The state-owned Iranian news agency IRNA reported the Iraqi Oil Minister and his Iranian counterpart in meetings in Tehran discussed transferring oil from Kirkuk to Iranian refineries for processing and returning the byproduct to Iraq.

He argues the Iraqi government could have built a refinery in Kirkuk instead of transferring crude oil to Iran, stating that since 2007, the local administration has been calling on the Iraqi government to develop the industry in Kirkuk and build a refinery there, reducing costs for the government.

A Kurdish MP in the Iraqi Parliament told Kurdistan 24 that efforts have been made by the Kurdish representatives in Baghdad to summon the Oil Minister to Parliament over the oil deal with Iran.

http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/economy/b490dba3-5238-4523-a679-c4f8d2fe0fa4
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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KRG and Dana has come to an agreement

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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 poised for bumper gas growth

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Editorial Staff in 1 Top News

LONDON,— Iraq’s Kurdistan is poised for a major increase in gas output following the settlement of a court case with developers who are now looking to unlock the full potential of the region’s large resources, investor Dana Gas told Reuters.

The semi-autonomous region settled a case with the Pearl Consortium last week by paying $1 billion to its members – Dana, Dana’s biggest shareholder Crescent Petroleum, Austria’s OMV, Hungary’s MOL and Germany’s RWE.

The consortium has a 10-year-old deal with Kurdistan’s government to develop the Khor Mor and Chemchemal fields – one of the largest gas deposits in Iraq, with reserves of 17 trillion cubic feet – enough to supply the whole of Europe for one year – and estimated resources of as much as 75 trillion.

Pearl had been claiming against the government of Kurdistan for underpaying for gas liquids production, as well as delays to field development, but reached the settlement after the long-running case in London.

Majid Jafar, managing director of the board of UAE-based Dana Gas, told Reuters the consortium would more than double its output levels from the fields as part of the settlement.

Production will be raised from the current 330 million cubic feet a day to 800 million, or 8 billion cubic metres a year, he said in an interview. That volume would be enough to supply the annual gas needs of a country the size of Austria.

That increase, to be completed within two years, could be just the beginning, according to Jafar, who is also the chief executive of Crescent Petroleum.

“This is only the next phase. These fields could potentially produce several times more,” he said.

He said with the addition of new blocks and with fresh exploration, reserves could rise 3-5 times from the current 17 trillion cubic feet, while production could rise as high as 5-6 billion cubic feet a day.

“We have the obligation to maximise the value of resources for Kurdistan and Iraq. We first and foremost need to meet local demand. But there are enough reserves for exports as well,” he added.

Of the production increase of around 500 million cubic feet (mcf) a day, some 250 mcf a day will go to the domestic market, while a further 250 mcf a day could be sent for exports or domestic markets or both.

‘CONTRACTS ARE SOLID’

The settlement came as further evidence of Kurdistan putting its finances in order ahead of the referendum this month seeking independence from Baghdad.

The region, which has been battling Islamic State and a budget crisis caused by lower oil prices, has been surviving over the past two years thanks to oil sales independent from Baghdad. It has been also considering starting gas exports.

Kurdistan has been long considered by European gas companies as a potential source for gas supplies to Europe via Turkey. Such supplies could help the continent reduce its reliance on Russian gas.

The Pearl Consortium has invested $1.26 billion in Khor Mor and Chemchemal since signing the deal with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in 2007. Under the settlement, Kurdistan paid $400 million toward further development of the fields and allocated two more blocks to the consortium.

“The settlement demonstrated two things: first – the KRG has a publicly stated goal of clearing debts with upstream investors. And second – the contracts are solid and are respected, both of which are important for investors,” said Jafar.

He said he believed the Pearl consortium was strong and was in a good financial shape after the settlement to fund expansion.

“Companies came and went in the Kurdistan region including some of the majors but it is a core group of the early pioneers who are driving the production and growth today,” Jafar said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-kurdistan-dana-gas/iraqs-kurdistan-poised-for-bumper-gas-growth-idUSKCN1BF1SL
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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Rosneft, traders lend more to Kurdistan ahead of referendum -sources

Dmitry Zhdannikov

LONDON (Reuters) - Iraq’s Kurdistan has borrowed funds from its oil buyers including Russia’s Rosneft to help settle a $1 billion London court case, as it cleans up its finances ahead of an independence referendum.

Industry sources said the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) had restructured some of its existing crude export finance deals with oil buyers to raise funds to settle a long-running case with UAE-based Dana Gas and its partners.

The settlement, announced on Wednesday, is another sign that the semi-autonomous region is working on getting its finances in order ahead of a planned referendum this month seeking independence from the government in Baghdad.

Kurdistan also signed deals last week with key oil producers on its territory to clear outstanding debts.

“With debts to oil producers cleared and the litigation settled, the KRG is gearing up for the referendum on a positive note. It is obvious that it doesn’t want to carry forward any deadweight,” said an industry source who helped structure the latest deals.

Majid Jafar, managing director of the board at Dana Gas, said: “The KRG has a publicly stated goal of clearing debts with investors. By doing that they become more attractive for investors, they can develop their reserves faster and ultimately raise more capital.”

Kurdistan agreed to pay $1 billion to settle a $2.34 billion lawsuit brought by Dana and its partners in the Pearl consortium over unpaid oil liquids production. The case had run for several years until this week’s agreement.

To help raise the money, Kurdistan asked Rosneft and traders led by Trafigura to effectively restructure existing oil export pre-finance deals and defer some payments, sources said.

Rosneft declined to comment.

Trafigura confirmed that it had participated in the fund raising. “We provide ongoing support to the KRG,” it said.

Trading houses have been bankrolling Kurdistan for the past three years and have been joined this year by Rosneft, which is seeking to expand abroad and often acts as the Russian government’s foreign policy tool.

Prior to the latest round of lending, trading houses as well as Rosneft have loaned the KRG around $3 billion guaranteed by future oil sales.

Out of the $1 billion that the KRG will repay to Dana and its Pearl consortium partners, $400 million will go back to Iraq’s semi-autonomous region where the consortium agreed to increase investments to expand gas production.

Reporting by Dmitry Zhdannikov; Editing by Susan Fenton

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-kurdistan-oil-loan/rosneft-traders-lend-more-to-kurdistan-ahead-of-referendum-sources-idUSKCN1BC565
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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Russia's Rosneft Clinches Gas Pipeline Deal With South Kurdistan

By REUTERS SEPT. 18, 2017, 8:48 A.M. E.D.T.

LONDON — Russian oil major Rosneft will invest in gas pipelines in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan, expanding its commitment to the region ahead of an independence referendum to help it become a major exporter of gas to Turkey and Europe.

Kurdistan's parliament approved a plan on Friday to hold a referendum on independence on Sept. 25, ignoring opposition from Baghdad and the wider region as well as Western concerns that the vote could heighten tensions in the region.

Kurdistan has been exporting oil independently from Baghdad since 2014 and Kremlin-controlled Rosneft joined the list of buyers this year, lending the region hundreds of millions of dollars in loans guaranteed by future oil sales.

Now Rosneft is widening its investments to gas by agreeing to fund a natural gas pipeline in Kurdistan, Rosneft and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said on Monday. Two sources close to the deal said the investments would amount to more than $1 billion (738.57 million pounds).

Hewlêr, the seat of the KRG in Bashur, needs money to fund the fight against Islamic State and ease a budget crisis caused by low oil prices.

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Kurdistan has relied on oil pre-finance deals to improve its fiscal position but has struggled to develop its large gas reserves.

For Rosneft, the world's largest publicly listed oil company by production, the deal is a major boost to its international gas ambitions. Rosneft has long sought to challenge Gazprom, Russia's gas export monopoly, in supplying gas to Europe.

For Turkey, it means the arrival of new supplies for its energy-hungry economy and the potential to become a major centre for gas supplies to Europe.

The pipeline's capacity is expected to handle up to 30 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas exports a year, in addition to supplying domestic users. Kurdistan sits on some of the largest untapped gas deposits on Europe's doorstep.

The volumes that Rosneft wants to help Kurdistan supply to export markets represent 6 percent of total European gas demand and one-sixth of current gas export volumes by Russia, by far the largest supplier of gas to Europe.

The pipeline will be constructed in 2019 for Kurdish domestic use, with exports due to begin in 2020.

"Successful implementation of the project... will enable Rosneft to play a leading role in the building and expanding Kurdistan Region’s gas transport infrastructure and create synergy with existing projects for development of the oil and gas fields of the five blocks awarded to the company," Rosneft said.

Rosneft secured a deal to develop five fields and has also agreed to help the region expand its oil pipeline infrastructure through which crude is exported via Turkey to global markets.

Kurdistan is seeking to boost oil exports to one million barrels per day (bpd) by the end of this decade from the current 0.65 million bpd.

The statement said Rosneft and the KRG had finished inspecting Kurdistan's oil export pipelines and Rosneft would soon complete developing final documents for the expansion project.

Rosneft agreed to help Kurdistan expand the oil pipeline via so-called monetisation, when investments are repaid via tariffs and oil flows.

Kurdish oil production has been mainly led in recent years by mid-sized firms such as Genel and DNO. Larger companies such as Exxon Mobil and Chevron are still at the exploratory stage.

(Reporting by Dmitry Zhdannikov, editing by Louise Heavens and Susan Thomas)

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DNO hails ‘exciting opportunity’ after joining Bashiqa oil field in Kurdistan

Hewlêr, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – Norwegian oil and gas operator DNO ASA on Friday announced they had reached an agreement with ExxonMobil to join the Bashiqa project in the Kurdistan Region.

According to a statement by DNO, the oil and gas firm will undertake operatorship of the Bashiqa license with a 40 percent paying (32 percent net) interest, acquiring one-half of ExxonMobil’s position.

As part of the agreement, ExxonMobil will retain a 40 percent paying interest, while the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) will preserve its 20 percent carried interest.

DNO plans to drill an exploration well in the first half of 2018 with a second exploration well to follow on a separate structure.

ExxonMobil had previously conducted extensive geological and geophysical studies and even constructed a drilling pad before work was halted due to the emergence of the Islamic State (IS) in the region.

The Bashiqa license contains two large, undrilled structures which are predicted to have several independent stacked target reservoir systems.

Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani, DNO’s Executive Chairman, expressed his delight at the “exciting exploration opportunity” between DNO, ExxonMobil, and the KRG.

“We bring to the project a 10-year record of successful and fast-track operations in Kurdistan, culminating in over 200 million barrels [of oil] produced to date,” he said.

“Following regularization of export payments and a landmark agreement with the [KRG] to close out our historical receivables, our foot is back firmly on the accelerator,” the DNO official added.

The 324-square-kilometer Bashiqa license is located 60 kilometers west of Hewlêr, the capital of the Kurdistan Region.

Bashiqa, located in the Nineveh Province, is a disputed territory between the KRG and Iraq currently under Peshmerga control.

The area will be included in the Region’s upcoming independence referendum on Sep. 25.

With three oil rigs currently installed, DNO is the most functioning oil and gas firm among international operators in Kurdistan.

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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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Chevron resumes drilling in Kurdistan Region

Chevron, the second largest U.S. oil and gas company, drilled the well in Sarta block, north of the regional capital Hewlêr, the first such well since the second half of 2015, two industry sources told Reuters.

“Chevron continues its exploration activities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq,” a Chevron spokeswoman said, without elaborating.

Chevron holds an 80 percent interest in the Sarta and Qara Dagh blocks, which cover a combined area of 279,000 acres (1,129 sq km), according to its 2016 annual report. It does not currently have any production from South Kurdistan.

Chevron started drilling its previous exploration in Sarta in late 2015 and completed it in early 2016.

It relinquished its Rovi block at the end of 2015.

The California-based firm’s operations in the region temporarily ground to a halt in 2014 after a conflict between Kurdish forces and Islamic State. Activity again came to a halt after the first Sarta well was drilled.

The region’s attraction for oil companies was dented after a string of reserve downgrades last year. But the sources said Chevron still considered a focus for growth in the future, the sources said.

Meanwhile Exxon Mobil, the world’s largest listed oil and gas company, pulled out of half of the six exploration blocks it operated in the Kurdistan region late last year.

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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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Gasprom will carry on in Kurdistan

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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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Russian behemoth goes step further in investing in Kurdistan Region

August 4, 2016. (Photo: Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin)

Hewlêr, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – Major Russian oil company Rosneft reasserted its commitments to the Kurdistan Region on Monday and announced ahead of the referendum on independence that it will invest in natural gas pipelines in the Region.

The announcement by Rosneft, which is owned by the Russian government, is seen as a boon to the Kurdistan Region which would be on track to become a major exporter of gas to neighboring Turkey and Europe.

The Russian-state sponsored oil company had engaged in talks with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) earlier in June to discuss the possibility of oil exploration and extraction in fields currently under the Kurds’ administration.

Rosneft is once again expanding its investments in the Region by agreeing to fund a natural gas pipeline in Kurdistan, which was confirmed by both the KRG and the oil giant on Monday.

Two sources close to the deal said the investments would amount to more than $1 billion, according to Reuters.

This summer, Rosneft gave the Kurdistan Region a major loan, worth hundreds of millions of dollars and guaranteed by future oil sales, which helped the KRG settle outstanding debts with oil companies currently operating in the Region.

Rosneft is the world’s largest publicly listed oil company by production and is looking to boost its international gas ambitions.

The pipeline’s capacity is expected to handle up to 30 billion cubic meters (bcf) of gas exports a year, in addition to supplying domestic users. The Kurdistan Region allegedly sits on large untapped gas deposits, which Rosneft is hoping to export to the European market.

The pipeline will be constructed in 2019 for Kurdish domestic use, with exports due to begin in 2020.

The Kurdistan Region has been exporting oil independently from Baghdad since 2014 after its cut of the budget share was drastically reduced by the central government. The Region is set to hold a referendum on independence on Sep. 25, in which the people of the Kurdistan Region will decide whether to remain a part of Iraq or secede as a newly-formed country.

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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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Russian operations remain unaffected by Kurdistan referendum: Energy Minister

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Hewlêr, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – Russia will continue to work with the Kurdistan Region and will maintain its operations, mainly in the energy sector, in the Region, the Energy Minister said on Tuesday.

Russian Minister of Energy, Alexander Novak, while answering a Kurdistan 24 correspondent’s question at a press conference in Moscow, indicated that Russia had no intention to scale back its investments and operations in the Kurdistan Region.

When asked if the Sep. 25 independence referendum would affect Russia’s relationship with the Kurdish area, Novak replied it would not.

“Russian gas companies are operating and will continue to operate in the Region.”

In the aftermath of the poll, Iraq’s Federal Government imposed a flight ban over the Kurdistan Region, while neighbors Iran and Turkey threatened sanctions, some of which have already been implemented. Tehran has stopped its oil exports to the Region and Ankara has threatened to close the crucial Cihan pipeline by which the Kurdistan Region exports its oil.

While Moscow has expressed it remains in favor of a unified Iraq, it has noted the issue of independence, as Russian President Vladimir Putin explained it over the summer, was an internal matter between Baghdad and Hewlêr. “We will not interfere in the domestic affairs of Iraq,” he had then said.

The Kremlin also recognized the Kurds’ ambitions. “We are interested that the Kurdish people like any other nation on the planet can fulfill its hopes and aspirations,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in July. “We start from the fact that the legitimate aspirations of the Kurds, like other peoples, need to be fulfilled within the framework of existing international legal norms.”

Russia was the only major power not to call on the Kurdistan Region to cancel its referendum. In the lead-up to the vote, state-owned gas giant Rosneft announced it would invest in natural gas pipelines in the Region.

Earlier this summer, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Rosneft signed a series of long-term agreements to widen cooperation in the Kurdistan Region’s oil sector, including exploration and production of hydrocarbons, commerce, and logistics.

Rosneft's spokesman had then described its understandings with the KRG as “a strategic investment in one of the most strategically developing regions.”

According to the industry sources, Rosneft’s deals since it first arrived in Kurdistan last December are worth around $4 billion in total.

Editing by G.H. Renaud

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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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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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Why not more? Isnt kirkuk alone producing 500 000 bpd ?
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Israel and South Kurdistan: the oil connection

Israel has been the top buyer of crude oil from the Kurdish region of KRG this year, according to shipping data and interviews with industry analysts, in a murky trade that underpins the Jewish state’s unique position as a supporter of the Kurdish Regional Government’s (KRG) hotly contested independence referendum last month.
Just under half of the crude extracted from KRG oil fields so far in 2017 has made its way to Israel, according to Clipperdata, a US-based company that tracks global oil shipments, dwarfing the amount exported to Italy, the next biggest buyer of Kurdish crude.

While the buyers in Israel are private firms, the purchases help bankroll the autonomous region and provide a practical plank to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement before the independence vote that Israel “supports the legitimate means of the Kurdish people to obtain their own state."The Kurds funnel their estimated 500,000-600,000 barrels per day of crude to the global market through a pipeline that runs to the port of Ceyhan in southern Turkey -- an outflow that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has twice threatened to sever if the Kurdish government in Hewlêr begins taking concrete steps towards breaking away from the federal government in Baghdad.

From Ceyhan, tankers often turn their rudders towards Israel.

Matt Smith, director of commodity research at Clipperdata, said his firm can track the ultimate destination of Kurdish oil sailing from the Turkish port using ship tracking and port agent bills that record its unique grade, referred to as “Kirkuk”.

“Typically we record Israel receiving just under 300,000 barrels (average per day) of waterborne crude deliveries and just under half of those are of Kurdish crude grade Kirkuk,” Smith told i24NEWS. “So they are the largest supplier of waterborne crude [to Israel].”

A list compiled by the Gorran Movement, a Kurdish opposition party, showed Israeli firms snapped up at least 3.8 million barrels of KRG crude in September. Attempts to contact the party to seek further information about the figures were unsuccessful, however it parried with observed shipping movements over the same period.

Being watched?

The trade has been pushed partly underground by the unresolved legal spat between Hewlêr and the federal Iraqi government over who has the rights to export the oil and how the revenue is divvied up.

From Ceyhan, tankers carry Kurdish crude to the global market, with shipping data and satellite imagery showing that many disgorge their cargo in Israeli ports.

However the ships often list another destination before diverting suddenly to Israel, according to TankerTrackers, an online database maintained by oil trade enthusiasts.

While Israel does not detail crude oil imports in its foreign trade data, one of the website’s co-founders Samir Madani said they can still glean solid statistics using ship tracking websites such as Marine Traffic, and analysis of satellite imagery.

“We have formulas which can translate everything we know about the vessel's dimension in combination with depth in order to tell us how many barrels are aboard that vessel,” he wrote in an email. “When a delivery/pickup has taken place, the draft level changes and reveals a new barrel count.”Many tankers also anchor in international waters off the coast and transfer their cargo to other vessels who turn off their satellite tracking transponder before heading back to Israel, several industry analysts told i24NEWS.

Earlier this month a Malta-flagged tanker, Seasong, sailed from Ceyhan with its destination listed as Egypt’s Port Said. However while cruising past the Israeli coast, it abruptly veered off course and sailed for Ashkelon.

Alan Mohtadi, a consultant who has worked with oil companies in South Kurdistan, said that Israeli firms typically buy the crude through international trading houses.

“Israel has no specific role in helping KRG selling the oil. They are buying the crude through oil traders, and since Iraq [does not] have any formal relations with Israel they can’t go after them” or sue them, Mohtadi said.

The KRG’s Minister of Natural Resources, Ashti Hawrami, confirmed the flows to Israel in an interview with Reuters news agency in 2015 and added that Israel often acted as a middle-man, on-selling the oil on the global market.

In August 2015 the Financial Times newspaper reported that Israel was procuring almost two thirds of its crude from South Kurdistan, suggesting that the trade may have eased slightly over the last two years. Israel also reportedly takes crude from countries including Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Russia.

Israel’s Ministry of Energy would not comment for the story. It typically does not discuss the country’s sources of crude. Paz, the Israeli energy firm that operates the oil refinery in Ashdod, did not respond to a request for comment.

A viable trade?

The booming trade that goes back as far as 2014 faces some headwinds, not least the specter of political instability roiling Kurdistan as leader Massoud Barzani’s plots his next moves after last month’s bid for independence.

The KRG may also be facing serious export quality issues as their fields can’t produce enough quantities of ‘lighter’ grades than they currently do.

Israel’s two refineries can process any type of crude, according to energy and geopolitical analyst Yesar Almaleki, who specializes in the Iraqi energy industry.

“This means they can process medium crude types, exactly like the ones produced by KRG. The close proximity of Ceyhan also plays in terms of shipping costs.

However, he warns that the “steep discounts Israeli and other refiners have enjoyed may soon lose feasibility as the KRG crude becomes maintained at the medium to light grade equivalent to other middle eastern crudes and sell at the Brent benchmark rather than below it. Buyers will simply not take the risk of dealing with KRG for the same price they can pay for a completely ‘legally safe’ cargo.”
“Of course, this depends on KRG’s willingness to see their crude not being underpriced anymore,” he added.

On the very day that Iraqi Kurds voted overwhelmingly for independence from Baghdad, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to turn off the taps of the oil pipeline that carries Kurdish crude through Turkish territory to Ceyhan.

He added to the warning after a visit to Iran last week, announcing that “in the case of KRG, Iran, Iraq and Turkey will form a tripartite mechanism and will decide on shutting down the oil,” according to quotes carried by the Hurriyet Daily News. He also accused the Mossad, Israel's foreign spy agency, of backing the Kurds' independence bid (Israel denies the claim).
The sudden pulling of Kurdish oil from the market would not only have an impact on global prices, but also on Israel in particular, says Smith of Clipperdata.

In such an event, Israel “would have to go in the market and not only that they would have to find a similar grade to Kirkuk oil,” if, as is likely, their facilities have been designed to handle it.

However, he describes Erdogan living up to his words as a “low-likely event to happen,” noting that among other considerations, Turkey pockets significant revenue from the pipeline.

Another advantage for Turkey in maintaining ties with the KRG is the potential for natural gas imports, says Matthew Bey, a senior global analyst at private intelligence firm Stratfor.

“While they do not consume most of the oil that comes from Kurdistan there is the potential down the road for natural gas exports,” he said, noting that “Diversifying [natural gas sources] away from Iran and Russia” would be a strategic advantage for Erdogan noting his rocky relationships with both countries.
“So we saw much more of Barzani using it as a political mechanism… his term ended in August 2015 so we saw it as much more him trying to reassert his role.”

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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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