Thousands of federal and Kurdish soldiers are pointing their weapons at each other, leaving volatile territory inadequately guarded and vulnerable to an emboldened IS insurgency. Iraqi forces drive past an Continue Reading
Iraq is reviewing options with Turkey to get oil from a northern field to a port on the Mediterranean Sea. Getting oil flowing again from the fields in Kirkuk in Continue Reading
Disruptions to Iraqi output and sales seen persisting to 2018 OPEC has to consider political risk pushing up prices: Yergin OPEC has an Iraq problem: the group’s second-biggest exporter is Continue Reading
Royal Dutch Shell is slated to exit the play in southern Iraq by June 2018, paving the way for other oil majors to take its place. American Chevron and French Continue Reading
Between November 1 and 20, Iraq’s crude oil exports from the south averaged 3.5 million bpd, up by 150,000 bpd from October and close to record highs, as Baghdad tries Continue Reading
Iraq’s security forces have found mass graves inside oil wells in an area in northeastern Iraq close to the oil-rich Kirkuk, and they believe the bodies are of civilians executed Continue Reading
Since the Kurdish referendum in late September, when Iraqi Kurds overwhelmingly voted for independence from Iraq, there has been a drop in crude flows through the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, as tension Continue Reading
Gas field facilities have been ravaged and booby-trapped by IS militants, and tensions are mounting between rival security forces. Iraqi federal forces have secured the Akkas gas field and its Continue Reading
All data is through October 2017 and is in thousand barrels per day. (Click to enlarge) I have now included Equatorial Guinea although I only have data from January 2015 Continue Reading
After helping Iraq stifle a Kurdish push for independence, Iran is now positioning itself to take control of oil exports from the region’s giant Kirkuk field, with the first deliveries Continue Reading
