Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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Saudi Arabia has ordered a record number of rigs for energy exploration in 2013, Worldtribune.com has reported. The website citing industry analysts said that state-owned Saudi Aramco would acquire and operate more than 170 rigs for natural gas exploration in the Gulf Cooperation Council kingdom. The...
Iraq has approved the construction of a natural gas pipeline across its territory that will connect Iran to Syria. The Iraqi Cabinet said in a statement Tuesday that it has instructed the country’s oil minister to sign a framework agreement for the $10 billion project, allowing the pipeline to...
Iran, Iraq, and Syria are working together on a gas pipeline project that will transport gas from the South Pars Field in Assalouyeh, Iran to Damascus via Iraq. Fars Press Agency announced the 1,6000 kilometer pipeline’s transfer capacity would be 110 million cubic meters...
Iran is planning to build a pipeline to carry natural gas to Iraq and Syria, Press TV has reported citing Oil Ministry spokesman. “Based on agreements already reached, a 56-inch pipeline is to be laid out from Assaluyeh (near South Pars Gas Field in southern Iran) to the Iran-Iraq border to feed...
Iran has started work on natural gas pipeline that will extend to Syria via Iraq, according to Zawya. The 1,500 kilometre pipeline is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2013. The pipeline is expected to supply both Iraq and Syria with around 25m cu. m of gas per day, following on...
Iran is close to signing a gas transfer deal with Iraq and Syria, deputy managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), Mostafa Kashkouli said. The country will deliver 25 million cubic meters of gas per day to Iraq through a pipeline, Shana news agency reported. Meanwhile NIGC’s...
Syria is keen on importing about 900,000 tons of liquefied natural gas from Iran, Managing Director of the Syrian oil refining and distribution company Nazih Jouhara said. The Syrian official said that his visit to Asalouyeh is aimed at learning more about Iran's achievements and advances in the gas...
The Arab Awakening and Iran's continued pursuit of a nuclear program dominated the conversation in the Middle East in 2011. But a longer view calls for greater attention to a seemingly obscure but potentially pivotal issue: the discovery of large natural gas deposits in the Eastern Mediterranean...
Syria has announced the discovery of a gas field in the central governorate of Homs.“The first wells were drilled at Qara in Homs governorate and the flow rate is 400,000 cubic meters per day.” Oil Minister Sufian Allawi was quoted as saying by state news agency SANA.“This discovery opens new perspectives...
MENA Hydrocarbons has commenced drilling operations in Syria with the spud of Itheria-1, the first exploration well on Block 9, Syria.The planned total depth of the well is 3,256 metres and it is expected to take 80 days to drill, on a dry hole basis. The Itheria-1 well will test a large structure with...