Dana Gas to boost natural gas investment in Kurdistan Region: statement

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Natural gas company Dana Gas announced on Sunday that it would boost its investment in the Kurdistan Region following sales of its assets to an Egyptian company, according to a statement from the company.

The UAE-based hydrocarbon company announced that it had recently agreed on terms with the Egyptian Wastani Petroleum Ltd, selling its assets worth $236 million in the onshore fields, according to a statement from Dana Gas.

“This asset sale is in line with Dana Gas’ strategic goals of strengthening its balance sheet and focusing on the development of its world-class assets in the Kurdistan Region,” the statement from the company announced.

Dana Gas’s share in reserves in the Kurdistan Region is “over 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent,” the company CEO, Patrick Allman-Ward, said in a statement.

The company operates in two major natural gas fields in Kurdistan: Khor Mor and Cham Chamal, owning 35 percent of its shares, through Pearl Consortium, since 2007.

In March 2019, Pearl Petroleum announced it had signed a 20-year Gas Sales Agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) as part of a plan to expand its operations in the Kurdistan Region.

The agreement is meant “to enable production sales of an additional 250 MMscf/day that the Consortium aims to produce by 2021” from the Kor Mor and Chemchemal fields.

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The Kurdistan Region estimates that it has recoverable reserves of at least 45 billion barrels of oil and 5.66 trillion cubic meters of gas. 

Editing by Karzan Sulaivany