Kurdistan producers receive fourth consecutive payment from the KRG

Tawke processing facilities
Source: KRG

On 6^th January, DNO and Genel announced that partners of the DNO-operated Tawke field have received a gross payment of USD30 million from the Kurdistan Regional Government for oil exported through the Kurdistan Region of Iraq-Turkey pipeline. This represents the fourth export payment by the KRG since payments recommenced in September.

On 5^th January, Genel also confirmed that the Taq Taq field partners had received a gross payment of USD30 million from the KRG for oil exported through the Kurdistan Region of Iraq-Turkey pipeline with Genel’s share of the payment being USD16.5 million.

It is interesting to note that payments to the oil companies have remained flat (at USD75 million per month) during the past four months, despite a collapse in the oil price from c.USD50/bbl at the start of September to c.USD36/bbl at the end of December 2015. This means that the international oil companies' share of Kurdistan's oil revenues is slowly creeping up.