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Part one

Of the 57 oil and gas blocks, 23 oil and 2 gas blocks are located in the PUK zone in Sulaymaniyah, Halabja, and Garmian provinces, where 13 foreign companies are investigating, searching, and digging oil production (except gas).

According to the information, Sulaymaniyah’s oil reserves are estimated at more than 36 billion barrels which are 65 percent of the region's total oil reserves.

This comes at a time when of the 9 blocks that have reached the production stage in the PUK zone, making up only 7.3 percent of the region's oil production.

First, the oil reserves of the Kurdistan Region and the share of Sulaymaniyah governorate in it

Different information is available on the size of the region's oil reserves, but official KRG information since 2010 indicates that 45 billion barrels of oil reserves are estimated to be in the Kurdistan Region, which has been published on the KRG's official website.

On August 19, 2010, the former minister of natural resources, Ashti Hawrami, announced at a press conference about the oil reserves in the Kurdistan Region that "There are 45 billion barrels of oil in the Kurdistan Region."

According to a 2015 Report by the Door Organization for Kurdistan Oil Information, "The Kurdistan Region has 50 billion barrels of stable oil reserve and 80 billion barrels of unstable oil reserve,", also the press information indicates that Sulaymaniyah’s oil reserves are estimated at more than 36 billion barrels and 65 percent of the region's total oil reserves.

Second, the oil blocks of Sulaymaniyah, Halabja, and Garmian administration

Of the 57 blocks (oil and gas), 23 oil blocks and 2 gas blocks, are located in the PUK zone borders of Sulaymaniyah, Halabja, and Garmian provinces, where 13 foreign companies now operating in the area.

The companies are from (8) the different countries (United States, Russia, Canada, Turkey, Korea, Spain, Australia, and Italy).

1. Betwata block: 650 Squares kilometers, in Sulaymaniyah province, it starts from Hajiawa town and reaches Betwata, Balisan, Khoshnawati.‌

2. Shakrok block: In Sulaimaniyah province, it starts in the Khedrani district in Dukan until near Shaqlawa. 418 square kilometers.

3. Qaladze block: In Sulaymaniyah province, it covers all Kaladze districts, Marqa, Dukan Lake, and Rania. It is about 2,000 kilometers square.

4. Khalakan block: In Sulaymaniyah province, Kalakan town, Haybat Sultan Mountain, and a part of Koya plain until Little Zab River. 624 square kilometers have (2,450) billion barrels of oil.

5. Piramagrun block: In Sulaimaniyah province, east of Dukan-Sulaymaniyah road and the foothills of Piramagrun mountain till it reaches Dukan town, it is more than 730 square kilometers.

6. Miran block: In Sulaimaniyah province, it starts from Tasluja, west of Dukan-Sulaymaniyah road, including a part of Agjalar, Bazian, and Chamy Razan Resort. It's 1015 square kilometers. Contains two big oil fields; east Miran which is expected to have 1,637 billion barrels of oil, and west Miran, which contains 4,808 billion barrels of oil.

7. Bazian block: In Sulaimaniyah province, Sagarma mountain, west of Bazian, Takia town, and part of Agjalar in Chamchamal district. Its 473 square kilometers, and has 1,178 billion barrels of oil reserve.

8. North Sangawa block: In Garmian. is located north of Sangaw in the Chamchamal district. it contains 6,163 billion barrels of oil in 492 square kilometers.

9. Top xana block, In Garmian. East of Qadir Karam district and Jabari area. Contains 4 billion barrels of oil in 945 square kilometers, despite a large amount of gas.

10. Taza block, In Garmian. Including a part of Nawjul and west of Qadir Karam district. It is expected to be 3 billion in oil and a large amount of gas in 700 square kilometers.

11. Palkana block: In Garmian, Duzkhurmatu, and Jabara districts, which is 529 square kilometers, containing 1.58 billion barrels of oil reserve.

12. Penjwen Block: In Sulaymaniyah province. Extends from the center of Penjwen to the Iranian border, and it is worth mentioning that no investment has been made in this block so far.

13. East Arabat block: in Sulaymaniyah province, it covers Siwail, Barzanja, and a part of Sharazur to Nalparez district in Penjwen district and is 700 km square.

14. Arabat block, in Sulaimaniyah city. Extends from Arabat to New-Halabja District. Including Goizha and Azmar mountain. Its 974 square kilometers contain 1,177 billion barrels of oil.

15. Baranan block: In Sulaymaniyah province, containing south-east of Sulaymaniyah and Baranan mountain until it reaches Darbandikhan lake. It's 722 square kilometers.

16. Qaradagh block: In Sulaymaniyah province, including the Qaradagh area and the east of Sagarma Mountain and west of the Sirwan River to Darbandikhan. it contains 4,896 billion barrels of oil in 846 square kilometers.

17. South Sangawa block: In Garmian, it covers the center of the Sangaw district and its surroundings. It is 846 square kilometers and is expected to have 2 billion barrels of oil and one trillion cubic meters of natural gas.

18. Kordamir block: In Garmian. Located in the south of Sangaw district and the north of the Kalar district until the Sirwan River. contains 5,129 billion barrels of oil reserve in 620 square kilometers.

19. Garmian block: Including the northern district of Kalar, Bawanur, Sarqalla, and Sheikh Tawel. Contains more than 4 billion barrels of oil in 2120 square Kilometers.

20. Shakal block: In the Garmian area, it covers the south of Kalar, Rizgari district, and Kafri district. which contains about 2 billion barrels of oil in 832 square kilometers.

21. Chia Surkh block: In Garmian. Located on the east of the Sirwan River. Extents from Qoratu and Maidan district in Khanaqin until the Iranian border. Contains 5,656 billion barrels of oil in 938 square kilometers.

22. Qara Hanjir block: In Garmian, it is located between Chamchamal and Kirkuk, which Contains Shwan, Qara Hanjir, and the Takai Jabari district. It’s expected to be 5 to 10 billion barrels of oil in 1,200 square Kilometers.

23. Halabja block: in Sulaymaniyah province, it is located in the Halabja district. Contains Khurmal, Sirwan, Biara, Gelejal, Halabja district center, and a part of Sayed Sadiq. Contain an estimated 650 million barrels of oil in about 1000 square kilometers.