RE: New article8 Aug 2023 21:50
Hmmm.... Simon Watkins exactly a year ago......
I think he may be a bit of a doom merchant. How much merit in his latest article? 🤷
ITS A YEAR AGO 👇
All Hopes Are Dashed For International Oil Companies In North Iraq
By Simon Watkins - Aug 08, 2022, 5:00 PM CDT
IOCs get blacklisted from operating in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Two landmark legal rulings made in February by the Supreme Court of the Federal Government of Iraq in Baghdad paved the way for blacklisting the IOCs.
The withdrawal from parliament of Moqtada al-Sadr and his 73-member power bloc has caused chaos in Baghdad.
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Any hopes held by international oil companies (IOCs) that the Baghdad-based Federal Government of Iraq (FGI) was just bluffing about blacklisting IOCs operating in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq have been dashed. A letter sent on 12 June by Hassan Muhammad Hassan, the deputy director general of the state-run Basra Oil Company (BOC) called on ‘all lead contractors and sub-contractors’ of IOCs working in Iraqi Kurdistan to pledge that they would no longer work in Kurdistan and that any current contracts should be terminated within three months. This has been followed up in the last few days with an order from the BOC director general, Khalid Abbas, to ‘all lead contractors’ that orders them to ‘suspend dealing with the following subcontractors and never invite them to any future works or projects in BOC oil fields as per the licensing contracts signed with your companies.’ According to local reports, multiple oil companies working in the northern Iraq Kurdistan region (including DNO, Western Zagros, Gulf Keystone, Genel Energy, and ShaMaran Petroleum received a letter on 19 May summoning them to appear at the Commercial Court in Baghdad on 5 June), whilst the most notable of the four IOCs blacklisted a few days ago was U.S.-Irish oilfield services giant, Weatherford International, according to Iraq news sources.
ONE YEAR AGO, NOT YESTERDAY. 👇
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Iraq-Unwilling-To-Resume-Crude-Exports-From-Kurdistan-To-Turkey.html