Crude oil from northern Iraq, including from the Kurdistan region, stopped flowing from the oil pipeline between Kirkuk and the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan early on Monday local time, Continue Reading
Kurdistan’s President Masoud Barzani announced his resignation three days before the end of his term in office, with violence erupting against the autonomous region’s parliament, according to tweets from Erbil. Continue Reading
Masoud Barzani, pictured voting in September’s Kurdistan independence referendum, will continue to play a role in politics without holding any formal position. The resignation is the latest fallout from the Continue Reading
Before America’s Twitter-loving president made it to the Oval Office, a recurring theme was that the U.S. should have gotten hold of Iraq’s oil after toppling Saddam Hussein. There’s this: Continue Reading
Iraq’s state-run North Oil Company (NOC) has resumed pumping into regional refineries, the export pipeline controlled by the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and into storage at the port of Continue Reading
Iraq last month become the second-largest crude oil exporter to the United States, overtaking its southern neighbor, Saudi Arabia, and is on track to repeat this performance this month as Continue Reading
Iraq will begin pumping oil from Kirkuk once again , just a week after clashes between Iraqi and Kurdish forces forced production in certain parts of the No.2 OPEC producer Continue Reading
Federal Iraqi troops attempted to gain control over a strategically important piece of territory at the intersection of the Iraqi, Syrian, and Turkish borders on Thursday, sparking a fight with Continue Reading
Iraqi government-owned North Oil Co. and Kurdish Kar Group are cooperating on pumping the oil from two fields that halted operations following the government military action to take it over Continue Reading
The standoff between the Iraqi government and Kurdistan over the past month helped push up oil prices, due to the idling of a sizable portion of the country’s crude oil Continue Reading
