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SULAIMANIYA/BASRA - Over a month after Baghdad cut off critical budget support to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), ...
Iraq's crude sales held steady month-on-month despite minor disruptions apparently stemming from the Israel-Iran war.
A barrage of drone attacks in the past four days highlights rising security threats stemming from regional conflicts and ...
The largest conventional land battle since the capture of Baghdad in 2003 has been ongoing since October 2016. The purpose of this article is to provide Army a first-look on lessons identified from ...
Iraqi oil production increased by about 50,000 barrels per day (bpd) in May, boosted by the continuing recovery of the Rumaila oil field and elevated output in Kirkuk.
Aside from overseeing the work of the Oil and Electricity ministries, the members of the Oil and Energy Committee have been tasked with finalizing long-overdue legislation for the country's oil sector ...
Neither the Oil Ministry nor Ukrzemresurs has announced any change in the company's status at Akkas, but the Iraqi government's decision to end the contract was confirmed by two senior Oil Ministry ...
Officials from Iraq’s state oil marketing company (SOMO), the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), and the Turkish state pipeline company BOTAS have held a series of meetings in recent days in Turkey ...
But Iraq’s ability to pay for the gas – long hampered by U.S. sanctions on Tehran – is threatened by the Federal Supreme Court in Baghdad, which on Sunday issued a ruling limiting the current ...
SOMO Deputy Director General and Head of Crude Ali Nazar al-Shatari (right), at the Nov. 30, 2016, OPEC meeting in Vienna with then-Iraqi Oil Minister Jabbar Ali al-Luiebi (center), and then-SOMO ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: In recent weeks, multiple different versions of the 2021 budget law have been circulated and key changes were made at the last minute, during the process of voting. The final version of ...
The Oil Ministry ordered production cuts of roughly 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) at the end of August, which helped reduce federal output to 4.53 million barrels per day (bpd) for the month, down ...