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Tag: Iraq
Iraq denies crude oil at special price to India
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain Ibrahim Saleh al-Shahristani said the country could not sell crude oil at a concessional price to India as its laws do not allow such a move. Iraq is the second-largest supplier of oil to India, which imports about 20 million tonne of crude oil from the gulf nation annually
India to cooperate with Iraq on various sectors
At a bilateral meeting with the leaders of Iraqi government, Union oil Minister M Veerappa Moily offered the participation of Indian companies with expertise in areas such as refineries, petrochemicals and fertilisers in various projects in the gulf nation. He recently visited Iraq to attend the 17th meeting of the India-Iraq Joint
Commission. Moily stressed on the need to strengthen the relationship between the two countries given that Iraq is the s
India keen to source LNG from Iraq
Union minister M Veerappa Moily held discussion with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki on partnership between both the countries on oil and gas sector. Moily visited Baghdad to attend a two-day meeting of the India-Iraq Joint Commission. According to a government statement, India will be interested in natural gas-based projects and importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Iraq
MRPL may procure more oil from Saudi Aramco
Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals (MRPL) has is seeking additional 23,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil supply from Saudi Aramco during April in order to compensate for the reduction in import from Iran. MRPL plans to stop oil imports from Iran in April if insurance cover is not available for their refineries. Indian insurance companies said they would not cover refine
RIL eyes $4 billion Iraq oilfield project
India's ` (RIL) is in race along with French energy giant Total, Russia's Lukoil, CNPC of China, American's Brown Energy for a $4 billion project in Iraq. RIL is one of the seven companies shortlisted by Iraq for developing its al-Nassiriya oilfield and construction and operation of a 300,000 barrel per day refine
HPCL may source more oil from Iraq
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) plans to source more crude oil from Iraq in order to compensate for the possible decline in its import from Iran. The company may have to reduce dependence on Iranian crude oil from June because it may not be able to renew insurance to process the crude thanks to the sanction from Western countries. Therefore, the public sector refiner may enter into a contract with Iraq to buy more oil from April 1, 2013. A top
HPCL may source more oil from Iraq
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) plans to source more crude oil from Iraq in order to compensate for the possible decline in its import from Iran. The company may have to reduce dependence on Iranian crude oil from June because it may not be able to renew insurance to process the crude thanks to the sanction from Western countries. Therefore, the public sector refiner may enter into a contract with Iraq to buy more oil from April 1, 2013. A top
Indian firms imported 85.9 mn t oil till Sep
Crude oil imported by Indian refining companies stood at 85.959 million tonne during the April-September 2012. It is learnt that Indian companies are reducing their import from Iran and are instead increasing their dependence on other countries like Iraq, Venezuela, Kuwait for sourcing crude