Naft Khana

[3] And it turned into a purely military area, where Iraqi army established camps and headquarters for the border guards, and after the American-Iraqi war, and after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, specifically in the year 2003, Kurdish families began to return to this area, but they found it a barren desert inhabited only by wolves.

[8] Full text of Annex B of the 17 November 1913 protocol: [9] The field was "discovered" in 1918 by George Whitfield Halse (1885-1968), who on the request of the British Army prospected for sources of oil closer to the frontline (than Abadan).

[10] APOC formally agreed on August 30, 1925 to form a subsidiary within 3 months to take over the assets in the Transferred Territory and to construct without undue delay a refinery.

[11] In the agreement of May 24, 1926 the company agreed to sell its products inside Iraq at a price not higher than the Turkish Petroleum Company (as specified in the March 14, 1925 TPC concession) and to pay a 4 shilling royalty per ton of oil exported from Iraq, subject to a future adjustment peg to world market prices.

The Kermanshah Petroleum Oil Company (also subsidiary of APOC) was formed in 1934 to develop the Iranian side (called Naft-i-Shah).

[20] While the new government of Iraq had affirmed the concession in 1926, it forced a renegotiation in 1951 and gave the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (new name given to the APOC) 7 years to increase production to 40,000bpd or lose the right.

[citation needed] On April 26, 2018, in the fifth round of auctions held since Iraq had opened its oil and gas sector to foreign investments in 2009, the Ministry of Oil awarded a license for exploration and development of the Naft Khana block, along with the Huwieza block in Maysan, to the Chinese Geo-Jade Petroleum Corporation.

[25] On February 21, 2023, 20-year contracts were signed to ratify the arrangements, which have the primary goal of reducing Iraq's dependence on imports from Iran for 40% of its own natural gas needs.

[26] Geo-Jade Petroleum released a tender for the supply of gas pipeline and accessories for the Naft Khana block on July 1, 2024.