Iraq Business News: Oil & Gas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The agreement, signed in Baghdad on Tuesday under the patronage of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, encompasses oil, gas, power and water development, with potential for future exploration investment. It also builds upon BP's previous work on the Kirkuk fields from 2013 to 2019.

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SmartBrief

MARCH 27, 2025

Now, add in some other products you probably didnt know contain plastic, things like paper coffee cups and plates, chewing gum, store receipts, cleaning products, paper tea bags and clothing. Some of the most significant industry sources of plastic waste are packaging, textiles and consumer and institutional products.

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SmartBrief

APRIL 1, 2025

The report notes that 119 million people drove to work in 2019, each emitting around 25.6 According to a Harvard Business Review article , global emissions dropped by 17% in April 2020 compared to the peak 2019 level. Instead, hybrid or fully remote models appear to foster productivity while limiting pollution.

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Enverus

APRIL 23, 2025

After seeing a wave of reorganization previously when crude lost its footing, companies have kept debt levels in check, been conservative about growing production and made judicious use of hedges. That is a challenge for companies that want to use deals principally to extend overall inventory life.

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McKinsey

JUNE 13, 2025

They will need to upskill the workforce, adapt the technology infrastructure, accelerate data productization, and deploy agent-specific governance mechanisms. QuantumBlack combines an industry-leading tech stack with the strength of McKinsey’s 7,000 technologists, designers, and product managers serving clients in more than 50 countries.

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Oil Gas Leads

JUNE 4, 2025

With a focus on production optimization, Scout directly acquires and operates assets, bringing deep experience, technology, and financial strength to each energy asset it manages. High River Resources LLC Founded in 2019, High River Resources LLC is a private exploration and production company also based in Dallas.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 31, 2020

Enterprise Products Partners, L.P., This case began in 2011 when ETP and Enterprise explored the possibility of partnering to modify and extend, or construct anew, a pipeline to transport oil southbound from Cushing, Oklahoma. The Court of Appeal reversed, and the Texas Supreme Court heard argument in the case on October 8, 2019.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 8, 2020

BlueStone primes the Court to resolve a Texas appellate court split regarding whether a lease provision requiring royalties to be paid based on “gross” profits or value received from the sale of oil and gas production nullifies an “at the well” valuation point elsewhere in a lease. In 2019, the Court heard Burlington Res.

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SmartBrief

MAY 23, 2025

Held in Indianapolis, this years show welcomed more than 14,500 attendees and over 1,000 exhibitors one-third of them first-timers all gathered to spot the next big trends, connect with key retailers and explore the evolving preferences of todays consumers. Since 2019, the category has grown by nearly $5 billion an increase of almost 70%.

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AWS: Energy (Oil & Gas)

JUNE 2, 2025

Amazon founded The Climate Pledge in 2019, and since then we have made strides toward our goal of reaching net zero by 2040. Effective carbon measurement involves monitoring and reporting carbon emissions across processes from production to transportation and waste management. Gt CO2 or XX% change)? cents per kilowatt-hour.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 12, 2022

In Litel Explorations, LLC v. and Gary Production Company were named as prior operators of the G.A. The Lyon Well was leaking in 2018, which prompted the LDNR to task the current operator (Sandhill Production, Inc.) Sandhill never managed to stop the leak, and it abandoned the well in August 2019. Aegis Development Co.,

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Rextag

APRIL 24, 2025

Energy Information Administration (EIA), gas production in the Eagle Ford region is expected to rise from 6.8 EOGs Dorado wells consistently deliver strong initial production (IP) rates, ranging from 20 to 24 MMcf /d over 24-hour tests. According to the U.S. billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2024 to 7.0 Bcf/d by 2026.

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Producer's Edge

APRIL 22, 2025

While the industry continues to explore recycling technologies and beneficial reuse applications, economic and technical barriers have limited widespread adoption. Consequently, over 80% of Texas produced water still finds its way into saltwater disposal wells—a critical infrastructure network that enables continued production.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 2, 2020

Riverwood Production Company, et al. (“ Riverwood ”), No. 18-5217, 2019 WL 2271118 (E.D. May 28, 2019). 18-677, 2019 WL 4734394 (W.D. 26, 2019), —F. One year later, the Eastern District granted motions to remand filed by Plaquemines Parish and the State of Louisiana in Parish of Plaquemines v.

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Reporting Oil and Gas

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Samuel Abu Jinapor also discussed the government’s efforts to increase gold production to support the program and underscored the mining sector’s significant contribution to the economy, constituting nearly 9% of GDP.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 2, 2019

On Friday, March 29, 2019, the City of New Orleans filed a lawsuit in Civil District Court against eleven oil and gas companies seeking damages for alleged harm to Louisiana’s coastal wetlands. The City’s allegations mirror those levied in recent years by the parishes of Plaquemines, Jefferson, and St.

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McKinsey

JUNE 17, 2025

The second guest is Liz Hempel , a partner and leader of the firm’s product development and procurement work for industrial clients. Partner Riccardo Drentin  joins us from Jakarta, where he co-heads McKinsey’s Procurement and Product Development division in Asia–Pacific.

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Rextag

APRIL 24, 2025

Energy Information Administration (EIA), gas production in the Eagle Ford region is expected to rise from 6.8 EOGs Dorado wells consistently deliver strong initial production (IP) rates, ranging from 20 to 24 MMcf /d over 24-hour tests. According to the U.S. billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2024 to 7.0 Bcf/d by 2026.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 17, 2019

In a victory for the oil and gas industry, the Third Circuit rendered a decision rejecting attempts by the Louisiana Department of Revenue to impose severance taxes on crude oil production based on index pricing.

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Drillers

MARCH 24, 2020

Recently, the Nigerian government demanded more than $60 billion in back royalties under a production sharing agreement with the supermajors operating in the country. History of oil in Nigeria Oil was first discovered in Nigeria in the mid-1950s after decades of fruitless exploration. million BPD as of November 2019.

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Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

JUNE 1, 2025

Asset values have also declined when crude prices moved 20 percent or more lower year-over-year, with the value of Permian acreage falling about one-third in 2015 compared to 2014 and losing more than half its value in 2020 over 2019, based on the average price per acre paid.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 4, 2019

On March 29, 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it had finalized a voluntary disclosure program for new owners of upstream oil and natural gas exploration and production facilities.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 27, 2020

law “to the subsoil and seabed of the outer Continental Shelf and to all artificial islands, and all installations and other devices permanently or temporarily attached to the seabed, which may be erected thereon for the purpose of exploring for, developing, or producing resources therefrom.” (343 1333(a)(1).

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Rextag

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

By targeting a 40% cut in oil-and-gas output by 2030 relative to 2019 levels, he repositioned BP as a leader in renewables, wind, solar, and electric vehicle (EV) charging. Signed an MOU with the Iraqi government, exploring redevelopment in the Kirkuk oilfields, estimated at around 9 billion barrels of recoverable oil.

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McKinsey

JUNE 17, 2025

Explore MGI research on Geopolitics and the Geometry of Global Trade About that grinding sound you’ve been hearing: Not to alarm you, but that’s the tectonic plates of global trade shifting. 4 There is no single cross-country definition of what constitutes a “critical” product. Annual GDP growth is taken to be 3.6

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 26, 2020

oil and gas production, with the former pledging continued expansion of domestic oil and gas drilling and production, and the latter pledging to transition the U.S. His America First Energy Plan is aimed, in part, at increasing fossil fuel production in the U.S. Due to the sharp increase in oil and gas production, the U.S.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 17, 2021

Alaska 2019) where the court found that OCSLA did not give the President specific authority to revoke a prior President’s withdrawal of OCS lands from disposition. The Court discussed League of Conservation Voters v. Trump , 363 F. 3d 1013 (D.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 17, 2021

Alaska 2019) where the court found that OCSLA did not give the President specific authority to revoke a prior President’s withdrawal of OCS lands from disposition. The Court discussed League of Conservation Voters v. Trump , 363 F. 3d 1013 (D.

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Aresco

JUNE 9, 2025

Confidence in domestic oil and gas exploration is soaring again, largely due to the regulatory rollbacks, tax incentives, and policy stances that prioritize American energy dominance. BLM reports that new leases on federal lands fell from 1,841 in 2019 to 205 in 2024, bottoming out in 2022 with only 120 new leases issued that year.

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