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I R A Q
cOUNTRY FAcTS:Ofcial Name: Republi o Iraq
Capital: Baghdad
Chie o state:
President Jalal Talabani; Vie
Presidents Adil Abd Al-Mahdi and
Tariq al-Hashimi; The president
and vie presidents omprise the
Presideny counil
Head o Government:
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
Population: 26 783 383 (2006)
Petroleum sector, key fgures:
Average oil production:
1.84 mill bbl/day (2005);
pre war prodution (in 2002)
was 2.03 mill bbl/day
Annual gas prodution:
17.6 bill m3 (2005)
Organisation o the sector:
Ministry o Oil:
6 Diretorates:
Studies & PlanningReservoir & Field Development
Tehnial
Eonomi & Finane
Administration & Legal
National Manuaturing
15 operating companies,
among them:
North Oil company
South Oil company
North Gas company
South Gas companyOil Exploration company
Iraq Drilling company
Oil Projets co
Other ompanies or refning,
transport and marketing
Project:
Institutional and tehnial assistane
Memorandum of Understanding with: Ministry o Oil, Iraq
Goals and objectives: Institutional and tehnial governane assistane within
the upstream and downstream petroleum setors.
Project period: September 2005-Deember 2007
Total budget: NOK 27.5 mill
ProgrammeThe programme onsists o the ollowing elements:
1. Data Management
2. Transer o tehnology regarding inreased oil reovery (IOR)
3. Petroleum setor training
4. Industry tehnology assistane and transer o experiene
regarding development o loal industry apaities
5. Poliy
Contact:
Ministry o Oil, Iraq,
oilmin@uruklink.net oilminoe@yahoo.om
NPD: ystein Kristiansen, Projet Manager oystein.kristiansen@npd.no
Ativities in 2006Management/Joint Steering Committee
2006 represented a gradual build up o ativities under the MoU. The progressin some areas have been slower than expeted due to the need to use time to
align the expetations as to the expeted output rom the ooperation. Travelling
arrangements and visa appliations proedures have also been hallenging and
the reason or some delays in ativities. It is easy to understand that the urrent
irumstanes in Iraq make planning diult.
In general, the parties o the MoU are quite satised as to the 2006 ahievements.
During the period 8th May - 10th May tehnial meetings were arranged in
Stavanger regarding the sub projets o the programme. The 2nd Joint Steering
committee (JSc) was arranged in Stavanger on the 11th May 2006.
Tehnial meetings were also onduted on the 20th - 22nd November in
preparation or the third JSc, whih was arranged in Stavanger, November 23rd.
The semi annual meetings with NORAD were arranged in Oslo on the 12th o May
and on the 24th o November.
Data ManagementAt the tehnial meetings in May a revised plan or 2006
was agreed upon with the main aims:
Joint working groups: 2 visits + 1 optional clean up o legay data or an Iraqi oil eld Establishment o reporting guidelines or data Fous on DM strategy in Iraq Improvement o Shlumberger DM projet1st Joint working group,
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6.6Content:
general introdution to Data Managementin NPD, Statoil and Hydro
management o national data entre(Shlumberger Sinas)
handling o seismi data and lean up olegay data (Statoil)
handling o well log data and lean up olegay data (Hydro)
Data Pilot Field clean UpAims:
To examine data types in detail, identiyproblems and propose solutions
Establish workfows or seismi and welldata and Qc routines
Loading o pilot eld data into OEc databaserom Shlumberger oe in cairo
cost estimate or total lean up o pilot eld data Set up guidelines or the handling o legay
data rom other elds in Iraq
A signiant amount o pilot eld well data has now
been leaned up by Hampton Data, or use in nal Qc
and preparation or data loading (see plans 2007).
Work during the planned seond joint working group,
delayed until early 2007, will dene the ost o the total
data lean up. It is hoped that muh o the planned
seismi data lean up an be done by Iraqis themselves
during seondments.
IOR ProjetIn the projet IOR has the ollowing denition:
IOR is the planning and exeution o measures in-
tended to inrease or aelerate oil reovery rom
a eld in a protable manner ompared to urrent
plans (inluding EOR).
Tehnial Sub committee (TSc) meetingsThree meetings were held, in Stavanger (May), in
Amman (September) and in Stavanger (November).
Sope o workA general IOR strategy was originally planned. The MoO
deision to inlude only 7 elds in the study led to
some redening o Phase 1 sope o work. However,
the projets overall objetives have not been altered.
It has been a serious hallenge in the projet to gain a
mutual understanding o the expeted projet results
as well as aess to relevant data or the planned quik
look eld analysis.
Joint working groupsTwo joint work periods with Iraqi (3+3) partiipants
and Norwegian experts were arranged in NPDs oes,
Stavanger in May and June. The aim was briefy to
assess the status and drive mehanisms o the 6 elds
based on available data and simple working tools.
Modern work proesses inluding multidisiplinary
open disussions on results and unertainties wereinorporated. Preliminary results have been disussed
with MoO.
Planning or the third joint working groupDisussions on the IOR/EOR potential o the elds and
short and long term needs whih started in the rst
two groups will ontinue and be nalized during a
third joint working period. This was rst planned or
August, and then postponed several times. On
30. Deember MoO onrmed their partiipation
with 10 partiipants in a workshop to be held
in Amman 14. 18. January 2007.
Additional work by the Norwegian groupAwaiting and preparing or the next joint work the
Norwegian group worked on urther eld assessments
and input to a preliminary drat report and inormative
presentation material.
Reporting rom Phase 1The report rom the projets Phase 1 will be nalized
shortly ater the third joint working group has been
arranged, early 2007. Reommendations or urther
work will be part o the report rom Phase 1.
TrainingThe major ativity has been the planning o the
18 week training programme or sta rom MoO.
The drat programme has been ompleted. A group
o 19 partiipants arrived in cambridge on the 17th o
November or ommenement o English training with
the Bell Institute. Due to pratial hallenges in getting
visa and transport to the UK, 6 weeks training was
ompleted beore the group returned to Iraq on 22nd
Deember. Additional English training will be provided
or during the training in Norway.
The plan is now to ommene the main training
ourse on the 16th o January 2007 or approximately
11 weeks until the end o Marh.
Industrial ooperationA study tour regarding state o the art tehnologies
within partiular elds is designed but has been
deerred to 2007.
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6.6Plans 2007Management
The 4th JSc is planned or week 27 in July in Norway
and the 5th JSc or November. An important matter or
the 4th JSc will be whether Iraq Ministry o Oil will
like to propose a new phase o the ooperation
programme or 2008 onwards.
Data Management
Workshop on Data legislation, guidelines and proedures
Date: Q1 2007
To establish reporting legislation (guidelines) or E&P
data based on aepted industry standards and
onventions.
Loation: Stavanger, NPD
Data lean up and Qc On the job training.
Seismi and well data
Date: Q1 2007
Loation: Stavanger and Bergen option Amman.
An important task will be the Qc and preparation othe pilot eld data or loading to the MoO database.
Data Loading to MoO database
Date: Q 2 2007(to be deided)
Loation: cairo and Baghdad
IORJoint Workshop(s)
A joint workshop on IOR strategy work will be arried
out in Amman early 2007 and i required a seond
workshop will be onduted.
Phase 1 Report
The phase 1 report is planned or 1st quarter 2007.
Phase 2
The phase 2 work will be dened when the Phase 1
report is ompleted. It is possible that the work will
ous on development o some regulatory tools and
assistane in ommerialization o IOR projets. NPD
will at this stage terminate the ooperation with
Statoil and Hydro regarding the IOR work.
TrainingTraining Need Assessment (TNA) Workshop
A TNA workshop is planned or early 2007 in UAE. MS
programmes and other training needed will be provided
within the remaining unds in the programme. Tehnial
programmes o some duration and distane learning are
also options to be examined. Petrad is oordinating the
training part o the programme.
Vocational Training
Voational training options are available through
Rogaland Kurs og Kompetansesenter (RKK).
High Level Policy Work shop
A 3-4 days High Level Poliy Workshop proposal or senior
managers has been developed by Petrad in ooperation
with MPE and NPD. Petrad will assist MPE and NPD in
arranging the Workshop. The nal plans and timing are
not yet in plae, but 2007 implementation is most likely.
Industrial Cooperation
A programme or a1 week R&D visit to Norway has
been developed by INTSOK / ScANDPOWER. (INTSOK
is oordinating the tehnology transer part o the
programme ).