L'Irak

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En Irak, la prospection pétrolière menace les mythiques marais mésopotamiens

AFP 19/05/2025

Sous les roseaux tressés d'une hutte traditionnelle, la colère gronde au sein d'une assemblée citoyenne. Dans le sud de l'Irak, militants et villageois fustigent un projet d'exploration pétrolière qui risque de porter atteinte aux mythiques marais mésopotamiens, déjà ravagés par la sécheresse.

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Gros projets Chinois en Irak dans la région de Basra :

China Tightens Grip on Iraq’s Energy Future with Massive Basra Megaproject

By Simon Watkins - May 28, 2025,

China’s Geo-Jade Petroleum has signed a swathe of major contracts that give Beijing control over Iraq’s first fully integrated energy project. This comprises a development project to increase production at the Tuba oil field from 20,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 100,000 bpd, constructing a 200,000-bpd high-specification refinery, and building a 620,000 tonnes annual capacity petrochemical plant, according to Iraq’s Oil Ministry. It also includes the construction of a 520,000-tonne annual capacity fertilizer plant, developing a 650-megawatt thermal power plant, and building a 400-megawatt solar power station. All this will be done in the heart of Iraq’s oil and gas industry, centred in the southern province of Basra that is also home to its key port and export hub of the same name.
These projects combined will boost Beijing’s already enormous influence over the country’s oil and gas sectors, and related infrastructure developments at a time when the U.S. and its allies believed that they were starting to progress in their attempts to reassert their own influence across the oil and gas giant.
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