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6.6

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,

June 10.6 30.6 2006- 5 persons

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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 ).