Category: Iraq

Updates include: Abd al-Mahdi’s internal memo names interim replacement Analysis of resignation, political landscape, and pending Cabinet reshuffle IOC contracts and NOC exports remain in state of uncertainty Iraqi Oil Continue Reading

Iraq’s Oil Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi suspended his participation in the cabinet, citing disarray in government ministries in OPEC’s second-biggest supplier. Abdul Mahdi said in a letter posted on his Continue Reading

Provincial leaders in Basra are moving to assert partial financial autonomy from Baghdad, in response to a lack of funding from the cash-strapped federal government.Basra Gov. Majid al-Nasrawi and Provincial Continue Reading

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is planning to reshuffle his Cabinet, but doing so could upset the country’s carefully balanced government. Since early February, when the prime minister announced his Continue Reading

The first ever natural gas export left Iraq’s southern coast yesterday, according to reports from the Associated Press . The historic shipment comes as the Iraq government looks for new Continue Reading

Gas will fuel at least a power plant in Diyala province within weeks, after years of security delays. An employee of Iranian power development firm Sunir walks past the Sadr Continue Reading

Iraqi-focused energy company DNO said its full-year 2015 revenues were down sharply, though its reserve estimate from the region was up 20 percent. DNO, which focuses on reserve basins in Continue Reading

Iraq’s Oil Minister said federally produced Kirkuk crude cannot flow through Kurdistan’s pipeline without a new oil deal. Iraqi Oil Minister Adil Abd al-Mahdi speaks at the Sulaimani Forum on Continue Reading