1. Northern Iraq Secures Vital Infrastructure Upgrades

    ...an to rehabilitate the Baiji-1 and Baiji-2 powerplants is also central to Baghdad’s broader initiative to restore services to the areas hardest hit by the Islamic State (IS) insurgency that wracked the country between 2014 and 2018. Baiji lies in Salahuddin Province and supplies power to the north, in...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 38
    Published at Fri, 20 Sep 2019
  2. Morocco: Minnow Bags Deepwater Block

    ...-1 well drilled by US firm Kosmos and partner BP in April 2014 (MEES, 18 May 2014). The two firms, key partners off Mauritania and Senegal to the south, gave up on what was then the Foum Assaka block in 2016 with BP quitting Morocco to boot. Kosmos at the time said FA-1 “failed to find hy...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 38
    Published at Fri, 20 Sep 2019