Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2022

A new 140,000 b/d refinery is scheduled to come online in Karbala, Iraq, this September, targeting fully operational status by 2023. More recently, the 615,000 b/d Al Zour refinery in Kuwait—the largest in the country when it becomes fully operational—began initial operations earlier this year.

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MARCH 23, 2017

And according to Iraq, the agreed-upon cuts have been all about exports all along. But Iraq is uniquely positioned. First, Iraq must contend with the Kurds, as well as international companies, with which it has production agreements that come with penalties for breeching. shale output at the higher oil prices.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Instead, much of the world’s hopes are pinned disproportionately on Iraq. A year ago, after the IEA released its 2013 WEO, I wrote about how the IEA was placing a surprising amount of faith in the ability of Iraq to scale up its oil production. Since then, Iraq has been plunged back into a state of war. million bpd by 2035.

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

The ‘Fragile Five’ petrostates—Iran, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria and Venezuela—continue to see supply disruption potential, with northern Iraq crude exports at risk due to an escalation of tensions between the (Kurdistan Regional Government), Baghdad and Turkey, while the United States has decertified the 2015 Iran nuclear deal,” U.S.

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APRIL 1, 2022

million barrels over a 45-day period to calm the global oil market in the immediate aftermath of the beginning of the Iraq war. President George H. Bush authorized a drawdown of 33.75 2005 Hurricane Katrina Sale.

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JUNE 16, 2020

One of the largest changes between 2018 and 2019 was a major increase in the import of Iraq crude: from 30,808,908 barrels in 2018 to 56,764,587 barrels in 2019. California gets the largest portion of its crude from itself: 155,785,058 barrels in 2019, or 27% of the total. from 53,444,960 to 63,459,582 barrels.

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JULY 30, 2019

The collapse of Venezuela and Mexico and Iran’s retreat prevailed over increases in Saudi Arabia and Iraq, reducing the weight of medium sour crude oil for the first time below 40%, with impacts on price differentials and refining. WTI, the US light crude, covers 60% of global growth.

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JULY 7, 2015

million barrels per day (b/d) in June, up 170,000 b/d from May and the fourth consecutive monthly increase since February, as Saudi Arabia and Iraq pushed out more oil, a Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials and analysts showed Monday. As well as Basrah Light, Iraq is now exporting the newly-introduced Basrah Heavy crude oil.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Eni announced the first production milestone under the Zubair Technical Service Contract (TSC) with Iraq’s state-owned South Oil Company (SOC). ZFOD is staffed mainly by employees from Iraq’s South Oil Company with expert support from the consortium. The consortium plans to increase production from the Zubair field to 1.2

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The Gas Exporting Countries Forum is an international governmental organization of 20 Member Countries—Algeria, Bolivia, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Angola, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Norway, Oman, Peru, and the United Arab Emirates—which jointly control 71% (..)

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MARCH 26, 2014

Because production levels from Iran, Libya, and Sudan and South Sudan dropped since 2011, China replaced the lost shares of crude oil and other liquids imports from these countries with imports from Oman, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Angola, Venezuela, and Russia.

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JULY 15, 2021

Since the IEA’s last Electricity Market Report in December 2020, extreme cold, heat and drought have caused serious strains and disruptions to electricity systems across the globe in countries ranging from the United States and Mexico to China and Iraq.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

In fact, half of the additional supply needed from the Middle East will have to come from a single country: Iraq. Birol reiterated those comments on February 17 at a conference in Japan, only his warnings have grown more ominous as the security situation in Iraq has deteriorated markedly since last June.

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JULY 21, 2022

A new 140,000 b/d refinery is scheduled to come online in Karbala, Iraq, this September, targeting to be fully operational by 2023. A new 230,000 b/d refinery operated by a joint venture between state-owned-firms OQ (of Oman) and Kuwait Petroleum International is set to come online in Duqm, Oman, likely in early 2023.

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

Renewed disruptions in Libya and smaller drops in Nigeria, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela more than offset higher output in Iran, Iraq and Angola. OPEC crude supply fell by 160 kb/d in November to 29.73 mb/d, its fourth consecutive monthly decline. Global refinery crude runs plunged to 73.6

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FEBRUARY 25, 2016

In June, Iran will launch a new grade of heavy crude that will compete with Basra crude, and which the Iranians will surely seek to undercut in price in order to win Asian market share from Iraq and the Saudis. And that’s with per barrel production costs of around $31/$32 in Nigeria, $23/$24 in Libya, and $10/$11 in Iraq.

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JANUARY 18, 2013

mb/d on lower output from Saudi Arabia and Iraq. For 2013, non-OPEC production is projected to rise by 980 kb/d to 54.3 mb/d, the highest growth rate since 2010. OPEC crude supply in December fell to its lowest level in a year at 30.65 Average OPEC crude output reached an historic high in 2012 in the wake of continued global demand growth.

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APRIL 10, 2015

Iraq’s Issues. After Saudi Arabia, Iraq is the biggest crude oil producer in OPEC. According to the EIA, these cuts would be helpful for OPEC members such as Venezuela, Nigeria, Iraq and Iran as reduced OPEC supply and the corresponding increase in oil price would safeguard their uncertain future economic growth.

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AUGUST 13, 2015

They are fighting a multi-front war with Iran directly (in Yemen) and indirectly (in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq). Fourth, in terms of political risk, Saudi Arabia with its Gulf allies, Iran, and Iraq, and the Middle East in general, is at the epicenter of global tension, turmoil, and tumult. Daily output from Saudi Arabia (10.5

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AUGUST 8, 2009

Accompanying the statement was a picture of oil wells burning in Iraq in 1991. The RFA followed that up later in the week with a second statement asserting that CARB and EPA failed to evaluate indirect petroleum GHG emissions related to reconstruction of Iraq and protection of the US oil supply.

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MARCH 13, 2015

mb/d, as losses in Libya and Iraq offset higher supply from Saudi Arabia, Iran and Angola. Final December and preliminary current-quarter data show higher?than?expected expected US crude supply, raising the 2015 North American outlook. OPEC crude output edged down by 90 kb/d in February to 30.22

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

After all, OPEC has only slightly increased output from 2014, and much of it came from Iraq, which has been trying to increase production at all costs, regardless of OPEC decisions. Iraq is not subject to the quota restrictions, and so it is pulling out all the stops to increase output.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

Geely’s current major overseas markets include Ukraine, Russia, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Zhejiang Geely Holding Group set a new export sales record in December with 11,000 cars being exported during the month, which also helped the company increase its export sales over the course of 2012 by 164%.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Gas was cheap during the late 1980s and early 1990s, other than a spike after Iraq invaded Kuwait , but some car buyers still wanted good fuel economy. My guess is that the reels turned over once, for a total of 162,150.9 Gets 100 kilometers per 4.5 liters of gasoline on the Canadian highway.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

And in 1992, we detailed how Iraq tried to build an atomic bomb, and how the discovery of that clandestine effort led to new ideas about safeguarding nuclear weaponry. In 1985, we unraveled the chain of events that led inexorably to the breakup of AT&T and correctly predicted what it would mean for the future of communications.

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DECEMBER 31, 2011

Additional oil could also be pumped north via the Iraq-Turkey pipeline to the port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean Sea, but volumes have been limited by the closure of the Strategic pipeline linking north and south Iraq. The United Arab Emirates is also completing the 1.5

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JANUARY 13, 2017

Market analysts paused a bit on news that Iraq’s oil exports from its southern ports on the Persian Gulf hit a record high in December, but the data has no bearing on whether or not Iraq will comply with the agreed upon cuts. Iraq is committed to achieving producers’ joint goals to control the oil glut in world markets.”.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

That same year we started deploying the first of thousands of robots in Afghanistan and then Iraq to be used to help troops disable improvised explosive devices. Our worst failure scenarios had the Roomba missing a patch of floor and failing to pick up a dustball.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Although crudes derived from the Canadian oil sands are more carbon-intensive than the average oil refined in the United States, they are within the range of some other crude oils produced, imported, or refined in the United States, including crudes from Venezuela, Nigeria, Iraq, and California heavy oil production, according to the report.

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JUNE 14, 2011

From FY 2003 to FY 2007 in Iraq and Afghanistan, a total of more than 3,000 Army personnel and contractors were wounded or killed in action from attacks on fuel and water resupply convoys. operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, jet fuel (JP-8 or JP-5 on ships) is the most prevalent battlefield. In current.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2017

In BP’s definition of low-cost producers, the majority of the lowest-cost resources sit in large, conventional onshore oilfields, particularly in the Middle East and Russia.

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OCTOBER 12, 2012

Among OPEC producers, Iraq stands out as its production capacity is expected to enter a new growth phase, which may continue even beyond the forecast period. These new supply sources are expected to more than offset decline rates and outages elsewhere as well as the continued impact of international sanctions of Iran.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 12, 2007

The corruption in the oil business isn't only in Iraq. PBS' Now profiles government auditor Bobby Maxwell's attempt to get oil companies drilling on government land to pay royalties due. See the video here.

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OCTOBER 25, 2015

Iraq has steadily increased output this year despite low oil prices and security issues related to ISIS. Moody’s sees global oil production rising by 1 million barrels per day in both 2015 and 2016.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 11, 2007

A 2nd Times piece, " Billions in Oil Missing in Iraq, U.S. Of course, a resurgent oil industry, we were told, would finance the reconstruction of the energy sector and Iraq as a whole. Cheney’s mind yesterday when he told 3,500 to 4,000 members of the Stennis’s crew that Iran would not be permitted to choke off oil shipments.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

India, which was earlier importing most of its crude oil from Saudi Arabia, is now changing its strategy and buying more crude oil from Nigeria, Iraq, Mexico and Venezuela. Asia has been one of the biggest cash cows for Saudi Arabia and there have already been some cuts in some of the most crucial markets.

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JULY 11, 2016

The other country to observe a fall in production was Iraq, as output dropped 20,000 b/d to 4.23 Analysts also said Venezuela’s oil sector continues to see power rationing, which is exacerbating the output decline. There seems little hope of a recovery in Venezuelan crude production any time soon, analysts added.

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