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Analyzing Russia’s Involvement in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region’s Energy Sector

Bahrooz Jaafar

4/4/2024 8:02:00 AM

As geopolitical chess pieces move, Moscow, with Beijing as its ally, strategically advances towards controlling the energy narrative and investment in Iraq, an effort to distance Baghdad from Western energy engagements and align it with the emerging Iran-Saudi Arabia axis. By the year 2023, Russia's stake in Iraqi energy would have reached $19 billion. Furthermore, in March 2023, the Iraqi state-owned Dhi Qar Oil Company (DQOC) ratified the development plans for Block 10 reserves.

The Geopolitics of the Iraqi Kurdistan Natural Gas: A Stalemate or a Shift in Perspective?

Bahrooz Jaafar

10/15/2023 7:52:00 PM

The Iraqi Kurdistan Region still has its pipeline infrastructure، the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) oil pipeline starts from the Taq Taq field, which is connected to the Khurmala Dome by 81 kilometers. Substantially, the Kurdistan's oil pipeline was completed in 2014, and it is a 281 kilometers pipeline that runs from the Khurmala field to Pesh Kabir (Fesh Khabur)

Strengthening Energy Security: The GCC-Iraq Electrical Interconnection Project

Mediterranean Institute for Regional Studies

7/31/2023 1:36:00 PM

Over the past year, the government of Iraq has pursued an ambitious linkage of its electrical grid with those of the GCC states—a development intended both to stabilize its own precarious electricity supply and strengthen relations with the GCC.

​The KRG's Energy Sector: The Search for Regional Stability

Bahrooz Jaafar

2/18/2023 9:30:00 PM

Overall, without the support of the United States and Europe, the energy security of the Kurdistan Region and the KRI entirely will be threatened by Iran and Iraqi militia groups (Probably Turkey's rulers will be silent). Also, Political, economic, and social stability cannot be achieved without reforms inside the Kurdistan Region.

Realism and COP26 the Saudi way? Hydrocarbons and renewables need each other!

Cyril Widdershoven

10/28/2021 12:48:00 PM

The world is eagerly awaiting the COP26 results in the next weeks. The largest climate change gathering until now will need to address current and future threats not only to the environment, air and water quality, economic growth and the future of the world, but also take into account the possible impact of all these measures, proposals and grand schemes to be expected on respective countries and regions, especially outside of the OECD area. The current onslaught on hydrocarbon producers, compan

Stubborn Kurdish Petroleum Resources: Surveying Actual data and investigating the declared Numbers

Mediterranean Institute for Regional Studies

10/22/2019 5:02:00 PM

The confusion over the Kurdish petroleum sector is related to a fundamental paradox which; the more petroleum industry developed and matured, the more financial crisis deepened and the population's living situation worsened. This reverse consequence is an unusual phenomenon neither to the people in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) nor for the observers which it mainly stems from the lack in the transparency surrounding the industry. The KRI's Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has frequently

Energy Pipelines in the Eastern Mediterranean and its Impact on the Global Production

Bahrooz Jaafar

5/15/2019 11:20:00 PM

this scientific paper is an inductive approach and will focus on the energy pipelines in the eastern Mediterranean, especially, the pipeline connection between Cyprus, Israel and Egypt and its exporting to European countries, in order to satisfy the EU ‘s demands, the article also asked what is the role of energy pipelines in the regional cooperations? Does natural gas redrawing the map of forces in the region?. How U.S.A is welcoming this new political economy phenomenon in the Mediterranean

The Collision of New Regional and Global Order in the Middle East: A security and economic reading of the future of regional conflicts

Bahrooz Jaafar

7/25/2018 8:28:00 AM

The events of the Middle East head towards a new regional and global system, the question is what about the nature of the regional and global order in the Middle East?. Here, This paper is a standard academic attempt by MIRS to understand more about the roles and impacts of all actors in this region.

Pipelines and Pipedreams: How the EU can support a regional gas hub in the Eastern Mediterranean

Mediterranean Institute for Regional Studies

12/17/2017 12:16:00 PM

There has been a great deal of excitement over the past few years around newly-discovered gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean, and rightly so.

Oil Investors’ Surprise New Worry: An Over-Achieving OPEC

Mediterranean Institute for Regional Studies

11/25/2017 8:40:00 PM

There are signs the production cuts have helped drain the global glut of oil. Industry stocks in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group of some of the biggest developed countries, fell by 40 million barrels in September, to below 3 billion barrels for the first time in two years, according to the International Energy Agency.

Investigation and Feasibility Study to Replace Asphalt Roadway into Solar Roadway

Dilshad Mwani

11/20/2017 9:38:00 PM

An increase in the use of renewable energy resources has been considered as one of the main solutions to reduce the global warming. Different types of renewable energy resources such as solar, wind, ocean and geothermal energy resources are available to employ. Among all these renewable energy resources, solar energy is the only resource available all over the world properly and distributed more constantly.

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