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Baba Gurgur. Baba Gurgur (Arabic: بابا كركر, Kurdish: بابە گوڕگوڕ ,Babagurgur[1][2]) is an oil field and gas flame near the city of Kirkuk, which was the first to be discovered in Northern Iraq in 1927. It was considered the largest oil field in the world until the discovery of the Ghawar field in Saudi Arabia in 1948.
North Oil Company (NOC) is situated in Kirkuk, Iraq. The North Oil Company is one of the 16 companies comprising the Iraqi Ministry of Oil . Headquartered in Kirkuk, its boundaries extend from the northern borders to the 32.5 degree parallel, just south of Baghdad.
The Kirkuk–Haifa oil pipeline (also known as the Iraq–Haifa pipeline or Mediterranean pipeline) was a crude oil pipeline from the oil fields in Kirkuk, located in the former Ottoman vilayet of Mosul in northern Iraq, through Transjordan to Haifa in mandatory Palestine (now in the territory of Israel). [1][2] The pipeline was operational ...
History of petroleum industry in Iraq. There is a long history of the petroleum industry in Iraq. Turkish-born Armenian Calouste Gulbenkian played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development and is accredited with being the first person to exploit Iraqi oil. [1]
Kirkuk (Arabic: كركوك; [3] Kurdish: کەرکووک, romanized: Kerkûk; [4] Syriac: ܟܪܟܘܟ, romanized: Kerkouk; [5] Turkish: Kerkük[6]) is a city in Iraq, serving as the capital of the Kirkuk Governorate, located 238 kilometres (148 miles) north of Baghdad. [7] The city is home to a diverse population of Kurds, Iraqi Turkmens and ...
Kirkuk Field is an oilfield in Kirkuk, Iraq.It was discovered by the Turkish Petroleum Company at Baba Gurgur in 1927. The oilfield was brought into production by the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) in 1934 when the 12-inch pipelines from Kirkuk (British-ruled Mandatory Iraq) to Haifa (Mandatory Palestine) and Tripoli (French-ruled Greater Lebanon) were completed.
Arrapha or Arrapkha (Akkadian: Arrapḫa; Arabic: أررابخا ,عرفة) was an ancient city in what today is northeastern Iraq, thought to be located at city of Kirkuk. [1] In 1948, Arrapha became the name of the residential area in Kirkuk which was built by the North Oil Company as a settlement for its workers.
The Kirkuk oil field, in northern Iraq near Kirkuk, is over 100 kilometers long and up to four kilometers wide and has estimated reserves of about nine billion barrels of oil. [18] It is one of Iraq's largest. Due to the conflict between the Kurdistan Regional Government and Baghdad, oil from the Kirkuk field has been a contested issue. [19]