Saudi Arabia wants to get oil prices near $80 a barrel to pay for the government�s crowded policy agenda and support the valuation of state energy giant Aramco before an initial public offering.
In conversations with OPEC delegates and oil market participants, Saudi officials had been careful to avoid pinpointing an exact price target. Yet people who have spoken to them said the inescapable conclusion from the conversations was that Riyadh is aiming for $80...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-10/saudi-arabia-is-said-to-signal-ambition-for-80-oil-price
Confirmation from the final results that the receivables agreement covered the SOMO outstandings:
On 23 August 2017 the Company signed documentation confirming an agreement had been reached with the KRG to put in place a definitive mechanism for the payment to the Company of trade receivables built up from overdue amounts with nominal value of $430 million owed for sales since mid-2014 ('overdue KRG receivable') together with nominal value of circa $300 million owed for export sales marketed by SOMO made before 2014, for which the Company has never recognised revenue ('overdue pre-2014 receivable').
From memory, Bilgin and Daax are both about 15% each, Karamehmet is in the low 20%s and Nat Rothschild is, through 2 holdings, about 16% in all, making about 70% between the 4 of them.
A new ad hoc arrangement for (oil) revenue sharing appears to be the order of the day between Erbil and Baghdad. The new arrangement lacks any legal sanction, but it may endure for some time given that it addresses key concerns of leaders in Baghdad as well as Erbil...
http://www.rudaw.net/english/opinion/09042018