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Faculty Of Engineering

Chemical Engineering Department

Third Stage

Assessment

Petroleum and petroleum products properties

Supervised by : professor ibtisam kamal

Prepared by : Safwan Ahmad Rostam

28-9-2020

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Introduction

Kurdistan has become one of the most active onshore hydrocarbon provinces in
the world with production rising to over 400,000 bopd (barrels of oil per day) and
newly discovered reserves in excess of 15 billion barrels. The development of
major oil and gas reserves in the autonomous Kurdish Region of Iraq (KRI)1 is a
recent phenomenon, dating back no earlier than 2005. Despite promising
geological signs, political conditions largely prevented exploration and production
until after the US-led removal of the Saddam Hussein regime. The story since then
has attracted major media interest, perhaps even more than has been devoted to
the larger fields in the south of Iraq, and there has been a wide range of
publications on the politics of the region, as well as others on its culture and
religion. 2 Outside specialist industry publications, however, there has been less
analytical work focusing on the region’s oil and gas sector.

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Oil production, demand, and export

By October 2015, the MNR reported that it had exported 439 kbpd from its own
fields to Turkey, and 156 kbpd from North Oil Company-operated fields (Kirkuk
and environs, still notionally under federal government jurisdiction78). Excluding
three days of shut down due to pipeline sabotage, the figures were 487 kbpd of
KRG-operated crude and 174 kbpd of NOC crude. In previous deals with Baghdad,
and under the December 2014 revenue-sharing deal, KRG oil sales per pipeline
were handled by the federal State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO), but by
October 2015, no KRG oil had been delivered via SOMO. Field developments have
been held back by the threat of ISIS, the region’s budgetary crisis, and the halt in
IOC investment, with Tawke and Taq Taq showing some declines in production.
However, to give some examples of continuing production growth, the capacity of
Tawke field facilities is being expanded to 200 kbpd, that of Taq Taq to 200 kbpd,
development of HKN’s Sarsang block has been approved with a production target
of 50 kbpd, TAQA’s Atrush field is to start in mid-2016 with initial production of 30
kbpd, Oryx Petroleum’s Hawler block is planned to reach 12–15 kbpd by the end
of 2016, and a development plan has been filed for Western Zagros’s Kurdamir
field. Should they proceed, these developments will be funded by the
international oil companies, though some of the smaller ones may need to raise
additional capital in a difficult market. Figure9 shows a forecast for KRI oil
production. Assuming oil exports are not constrained and the fields receive
sufficient investment, production could reach its target of 1 million bpd of exports,
targeted by Minister Hawrami for the end of 2016, during 2018 or 2019. However,
the sustained investment required is heavily dependent on establishing a regular
and sizeable payment by the KRG to the IOCs. This production total excludes
Kirkuk, which adds another 150 kbpd of exports (and effectively more, since Kirkuk
crude is supplying KRG domestic refineries and hence freeing up other crude for
export). Kirkuk production could be boosted to a level above 200 kbpd with some
remedial work, and the surrounding fields of Bai Hassan, Jambur, and Khabbaz
could add another 250 kbpd. However, Kirkuk capacity will decline without
substantial investment and technical assistance, which BP had formerly been
providing by agreement with the Ministry of Oil in Baghdad.

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Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq Oil production,

export.

Oil Exports and Period total year

Production
Total production 210,709,588 bbls December 2015
Total production 110,852,276 bbls 1 January 2017 to 30
June 2017
Total production 90,997,914 bbls 1 July 2017 to 31
December 2017
Total production 30,503,447 bbls 1 January 2018 to 31
March 2018
Total production 31,426,144 bbls 1 April 2018 to 30
June 2018
Total production 35,751,432 bbls 1 July 2018 to 30
September 2018
Total production 40,960,333 bbls 1 October 2018 to 31
December 2018
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Total production 41,340,645 bbls 1 January 2019 to 31

March 2019
Total production 41,340,645 bbls 1 April 2019 to 30
June 2019
Total production 43,051,135 bbls 1 July 2019 to 30
September 2019
Total production 44,215,324 bbls 1 October 2019 to 31
December 2019

4.5
PRODUCTION CAPACITY OF OIL IN
4 KURDISTAN REGION
OIL PRODUCTIOKN (BBLS)

3.5
3
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
2015 2017 2018 2019
YEAR

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Reference

https://eiti.org/document/kurdistan-regional-government-of-iraq-
reports-on-oil-production-export-consumption-revenue

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326293056_Oil_Gas_Indus
try_of_Kurdistan_Region_of_Iraq_Challenges_and_Opportunities_Ove
rview

https://journals.ukh.edu.krd/index.php/ukhjss/article/view/31/92