First quarter results mean current market conditions support a doubling of the amount of activity in Kurdish oil fields, a Norwegian energy company said. Norwegian oil and gas company DNO Continue Reading
Masked gunmen assassinated the deputy director general of the state-run North Gas Company (NGC) Tuesday morning in Kirkuk.Iraq’s northern oil sector has been buffeted by violence in recent years, due Continue Reading
Iraq will go with the consensus reached by OPEC when the oil exporter group meets in Vienna next month to discuss extending production cuts, the country’s oil minister said on Continue Reading
Iraq has started work on the third and final phase of the Halfaya oil field expansion, with the goal to double production capacity next year, a company official at the Continue Reading
British energy company Petrofac said Tuesday it scored a multimillion-dollar contract in part to help Iraq expand port facilities for the Persian Gulf. “Over the coming months we will focus Continue Reading
The bombing raid targeted a PKK affiliate, but KRG Peshmerga were killed. A former IS group hideout occupied by fighters from several PKK-aligned militias west of Sinjar, Nov. 12, 2015. Continue Reading
Iraq has launched the third and final phase of work to expand its southern Halfaya oil field, aiming to double its output capacity in 2018 to 400,000 barrels per day, Continue Reading
Iraq’s attempts to reduce oil production appear to have leveled off in March, as senior oil officials said they are fully complying with OPEC cuts.The country produced an estimated 4.586 Continue Reading
The quest for independence has been a perennial feature of political rhetoric in Kurdistan, but now leaders are taking significant new steps in pursuit of that aspiration.The Kurdistan region’s top Continue Reading
Some of OPEC’s biggest oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, are now targeting $60 a barrel as the level where they want to push crude prices, OPEC officials said, signaling they Continue Reading
