En passant :
- 444 milliards de $ en Afghanistan,
- 55 milliards de $ en intérieur (USA),
Soit un total de 1 302 milliards de $.
Note du Canard : peut mieux faire.

Modérateurs : Rod, Modérateurs
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-2 ... as-1-.htmlIraq Says it Signed Deal to Import Iranian Natural Gas for Power Plants
Iraq signed an initial agreement to import 25 million cubic meters of natural gas a day from Iran for power stations, Mosaab Serri, a spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity, said.
The agreement provides for the installation of pipelines within 18 months to transport gas from Iran to the Sadr and al- Quds power stations in Baghdad, he said in an e-mailed statement today.
The agreement with Iran, which holds the world’s second- largest gas reserves, requires the approval of the Iraqi Council of Ministers and Parliament, the statement said.
The pipelines will pass the Mansouriya gas field, which is due to supply gas to the two power plants instead of Iran starting 2016, the statement said. Kuwait Energy Co., Turkiye Petrolleri AO and Korea Gas, known as Kogas, secured rights to develop Mansouriya. The license, granted last year along with two other natural-gas contracts, has yet to be officially ratified by the Iraqi Council of Ministers.
http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC110 ... -years-endIraq sees oil output at 3m barrels per day by year's end
Jun 05, 2011
RUMAILA - Iraq expects its oil output to rise to 3 million barrels per day by the end of this year and grow an additional 500,000 to 1 million barrels per day next year, Deputy Prime Minister Hussain Al Shahristani said yesterday.
Mr Shahristani said that Iraq's programme to install new single-point moorings would help to increase export capacity by an additional 1.8 million barrels per day by the end of this year.
The OPEC member's current output is about 2.7 million to 2.8 million barrels per day. Iraq is rebuilding its oil infrastructure after years of conflict and has signed deals with oil majors to reach a proposed production capacity of 12 million barrels per day by 2017. Most analysts see 6-7 million barrels per day as more realistic.
Mr Shahristani fended off speculation about Iraq's ability to reach this ambitious target, saying that work was going as planned.
He also said Iraq supported an increase in OPEC production if a hike was needed to meet rising global demand. Reuters
L'article explique qu'ils pensent à un plateau de production plus long dans les gisements du sud du pays (14 ans au lieu de 7) qui permettrait de construire une infrastructure moins chere et de la rentabiliser pendant plus longtemps...Iraq's Oil Ministry is waiting for a report by international consultants before deciding the extent of a cut in oil output expansion targets from southern fields and may slash original estimates down from 12 million b/d to around 7-8 million b/d over an extended plateau period, Oil Minister Abdul Karim Luaibi said Wednesday.
Raminagrobis a écrit :lien Les chinois (CNPC) démarent un gisement en Iraq. Il est loin de faire partie des plus gros du pays, mais c'est la première fois depuis plus de 20 ans qu'un gisement "vierge" est mis en production en Irak.
3 milliards de $ d' investisssemnt a Al-Ahdab pour 1 milliards de barils en place. Si ils en retirent effectivement 30% soit 0.3 milliards de barils ca fera 10$ d' investissement par baril extrait.Al-Ahdab oil field in Iraq,...........Operations began June 21, and the field is expected to produce three million tons of crude oil per year, reported China Daily, an official English-language newspaper. The oil field was discovered in 1979 and is believed to contain a billion barrels of crude.
The Chinese company, the China National Petroleum Corporation, a state-owned enterprise, secured rights to the field under a technical services contract signed with the Iraqi government in November 2008. Under the contract, the company has development rights for 23 years, China Daily reported. It is investing $3 billion.
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http://gulfnews.com/business/oil-gas/ch ... q-1.842093China begins oil production in Iraq
Output at 40,000bpd and will rise to 60,000bpd
July 24, 2011
China National Petroleum Corp, known as CNPC, yesterday started crude oil production from the Al Ahdab oil field in central Iraq, Iraqi oil officials said.
The officials said output is running at a rate of 40,000 barrels per day, and will rise to 60,000 barrels a day within the next few days. By the end of the year, the field, which has reserves of 1 billion barrels, should be producing 120,000 barrels, rising to 160,000 barrels a day by the end of 2012, the officials said.
Oil will be sent to a gathering station in Tuba in southern Iraq before being pumped to export terminals. "Crude oil for export from [Al] Ahdab is expected to reach Tuba on August 10," an official said.
In March 2009, CNPC secured the first major oil-development deal with Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussain in 2003 with its $3 billion (Dh11 billion) project to develop the Al Ahdab field, which lies in Wasit governorate, some 160 kilometres south of Baghdad.
Under the agreement, CNPC will charge a service fee of $6 for each produced barrel of oil as well as the costs incurred to develop the field.
China is a leading player in Iraq's oil sector. In 2009, CNPC sealed a deal along with Britain's BP PLC (BP) to ramp up production at Iraq's biggest oil field, Rumaila, which has estimated reserves of 17.7 billion barrels.
In December of that year, a consortium led by CNPC won the right to develop Halfaya oil field in southern Iraq, whose reserves are estimated at 4.09 billion barrels. Also, Chinese companies had secured a deal to upgrade Missan oil fields in southern Iraq.
http://www.leblogfinance.com/2011/08/ir ... ement.htmlIrak: le projet de loi sur le pétrole et le gaz enfin adopté par le gouvernement
leblogfinance 28 Aout 2011
Enfin ! Après des années d'impasses et de rebondissements, le gouvernement irakien a approuvé dimanche un projet de loi sur le pétrole et le gaz destiné à réglementer le secteur des hydrocarbures et à établir les fondements du partage de production entre Bagdad et les provinces.
Le texte doit encore être approuvé par le Parlement.
Le vote de tout projet allant dans ce sens a été reporté régulièrement depuis 2007 en raison de divergences entre le gouvernement central et les autorités provinciales du Kurdistan.
Alors que Bagdad souhaite avoir la main mise sur la gestion des ressources pétrolières, le Kurdistan, région riche en hydrocarbures entend quant à lui garder le contrôle de la manne pétrolière.
Rappelons qu'à l'heure actuelle, l'Irak produit environ 2,7 millions de barils par jour, dont environ 2,1 millions sont exportés. D'ici fin 2011, l'Irak pourrait porter sa production à 3 millions de barils par jour (mbj). A noter également que les revenus du pétrole assurent près de 90% des rentrées de l'Etat.
Le gouvernement central était entré en conflit ouvert avec la région autonome du Kurdistan suite aux accords pétroliers que cette dernière a conclus avec des groupes étrangers, l'origine du conflit étant directement lié à la répartition des charges et des bénéfices de ces opérations.
Début février, le Premier ministre irakien Nouri al-Maliki avait toutefois déclaré que Bagdad avait au final accepté d'avaliser les contrats pétroliers - basés sur le partage des bénéfices - conclus par la région autonome du Kurdistan, mettant ainsi fin à des mois de dispute avec le gouvernement kurde.
Le Kurdistan, qui avait cessé d'exporter son pétrole en octobre 2009 en raison d'un différend avec Bagdad sur le mode de rémunération des compagnies étrangères exploitant les gisements, a recommencé au début du mois de février à pomper le pétrole destiné à l'exportation.
Les propos de Maliki prononcés en février dernier s'avéraient pour le moins historiques, désavouant la politique pétrolière centralisatrice menée depuis 2006 par son précédent ministre du Pétrole Hussein Chahristani tout en reconnaissant les contrats kurdes et leur caractère plus lucratif, en invoquant des conditions naturelles de forage différentes au Kurdistan et dans le Sud de l'Irak.
Précisons également que Bagdad a maintes fois contesté aux autorités kurdes le droit de signer leurs contrats pétroliers, allant jusqu'à interdire aux compagnies concernées de participer aux appels d'offres nationaux. Ce qui n'a toutefois pas empêché le Kurdistan de ratifier des accords avec de nombreuses compagnies étrangères ...
Sources : AFP, Reuters
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-1 ... 3-war.htmlIraq Crude Oil Output Rises to Highest Level Since 2003 War
Sep 18, 2011 Bloomberg
Iraq’s oil production rose to 2.81 million barrels a day, the highest level since the U.S.-led invasion of the country in 2003, the Oil Ministry said today.
Output at fields in the oil hub of Basra in the south reached 2.113 million barrels a day, while daily production in the northern region of Kirkuk stood at 697,000 barrels, the ministry said in a statement. Production has increased due to the licensing of oilfields since 2003, it said.
Iraq was producing 2.75 million barrels a day of crude in July for the first time since 2003 and exporting 2.2 million barrels a day, Thamir Ghadhban, chairman of the advisory commission to the country’s prime minister, said July 13. Crude output will rise to 3.3 million barrels a day and exports to 7 million barrels next year, Oil Ministry Spokesman Asim Jihad said July 14.
Iraq, home to the world’s fifth-biggest oil reserves, is trying to boost energy exports, the main source of revenue to help rebuild an economy shattered by years of conflict, economic sanctions and sabotage. The country has signed 15 gas and oil licenses since the 2003 invasion of Iraq that ousted the regime of President Saddam Hussein.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/busine ... 6158751835Iraq awards oil project to Australian firm
Iraq has awarded a $US518 million ($545.35 million) contract to expand oil export facilities in the south of the country to a subsidiary of Australian firm Leighton International, the Government said yesterday.
The project must be implemented within 16 months and will be funded by a Japanese government loan, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said in a statement.
The total value of the contract is $US518,157,000 ($545.51 million) and was awarded to Leighton's Singapore-registered subsidiary, Leighton Offshore.
The project is to build a single point mooring loading buoy and a sea export pipeline "in order to increase the export capacities for the oil ports in the south to handle the increased crude oil production that will come after the oil auctions," Mr Dabbagh said.
He was referring to a series of public auctions held between mid-2009 and late 2010 by the Iraqi Government in which several contracts were awarded to foreign firms to ramp up production at oil and gas fields nationwide.
Having awarded those contracts, Baghdad is also seeking to improve its export infrastructure.
Yesterday's announcement follows the September 14 awarding of a $US468.5-million contract to expand oil export facilities in the southern port city of Basra to Italian firm Saipem.
Around 80 per cent of Iraq's oil exports are transported through its southern ports, with crude sales accounting for the lion's share of government revenues.
Iraq on Monday said that crude output was now 2.9 million barrels per day (bpd), and will rise to three million bpd by the end of the year.