Oil companies including BP PLC (BP), Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), Eni SpA (E) and China National Petroleum Corp. could have to surrender most of the gas they extract from Iraq's southern fields to a project led by Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA), Reuters reported Monday, citing a "final draft contract" between the Iraqi government and the U.K. giant.
Oil companies including BP PLC (BP), Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), Eni SpA
(E) and China National Petroleum Corp. could have to surrender most of the gas
they extract from
Iraq
's
southern fields to a project led by Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA), Reuters
reported Monday, citing a "final draft contract" between the Iraqi
government and the
U.K.
giant.
The other companies signed service contracts to develop three fields in
southern Iraq -- Zubair, Rumaila and West Qurna 1 -- but the agreements require
them to cede any gas they don't use for reinjection or power generation to
Iraq's state-run South Gas Co.
Under a $17 billion deal to be ratified by Iraq's cabinet, Baghdad has pledged
to do what it takes to ensure the three fields supply the Shell-led Basra Gas
Co. joint venture with all the raw gas and liquefied natural gas it needs,
including for an LNG export plant, according to the contract, a copy of which
Reuters reported seeing. Terms of the oil companies' service contracts specify
that SGC owns all gas not used for oil recovery or power generation at the
fields.
The other oil companies could propose alternatives for using some of it and
some are understood to be considering their own gas projects. But a letter
Iraq
's Oil
Ministry attached to the deal said the government will ensure SGC meets its
side of the supply deal and that other parties don't prevent it from doing so.
The quantities of raw unprocessed gas SGC will deliver to the Shell-led joint
venture, backed by minority partner
Japan
's
Mitsubishi Corp. (8058.TO), aren't noted in the draft contract and will be
revised in line with output from the oil fields.
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