Iraq’s oil exports slipped to 3.216 million barrels per day in August from 3.230 million bpd in July as no shipments were made from the northern Kirkuk field, the oil ministry said All the volumes...
Read moreAccording to Reuters, Iraq cut Kirkuk oil exports to fulfill commitment agreed with OPEC and provide the fuel needed to meet local needs in light of its war against al-Islamic state. The Kurdistan...
Read moreIraq’s Kurdistan has agreed new deals to borrow $3 billion from trading houses and Russian state oil firm Rosneft that will be guaranteed by future oil sales to strengthen its fiscal position...
Read moreIraq has reached agreement with BP, Shell and Lukoil to restart stalled investment in oil fields the firms are developing, allowing projects that were halted this year to resume and crude production...
Read moreAs if Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki didn’t have enough problems battling city-grabbing al-Qaida insurgents in western Iraq, his simmering faceoff with independence-minded Kurds in the north...
Read moreDuring a visit by the Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandeel to Baghdad in early March 2013, the media advisor of the Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Mousowi announced that his country has agreed to...
Read more“Gazprom” – the giant Russian group active in the gas field – announced that it has joined a new project to extract oil in the Iraqi Kurdistan despite the tensions with the...
Read moreDespite decades of war, civil unrest and a very recent, complete regime overhaul, Iraq has clamored its way up to become the world’s third largest oil exporter. As foreign and national...
Read moreThe Government Energy Committee in Iraq made an emergency plan to face any crisis that might arise if Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, which could disrupt about 80% of the Iraqi oil exports. The...
Read moreThe Iraqi Oil Minister Abdul Karim Loaibi said that Turkey had informed Iraq that it will refuse to extend any oil and gas pipelines from Kurdistan without the approval of the the Baghdadi government...
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