The Iraqi oil ministry has reduced the local retail price of high octane gasoline to reflect the lower cost of importing it, the government said on Sunday on its website.A Continue Reading
Militants launched a coordinated series of bombings and suicide attacks deep inside several government-controlled areas of Iraq on Monday, signaling what could be a renewed embrace of asymmetric tactics by Continue Reading
Work on one of Kurdistan’s major new power plants has stopped after a Jan. 6 attack that was sparked by a commercial dispute between foreign companies and a local Kurdish Continue Reading
More than 16 months after Iraqi and Kurdish forces reclaimed Mosul Dam from Islamic State fighters, the structure faces a new threat: the danger that it may collapse because of Continue Reading
Iraq’s main crossing with Turkey reopened yesterday after 22 days of closures that choked off commerce and left thousands of trucks and people stranded at both sides of the border.So Continue Reading
Energy companies working in the Kurdish north of Iraq said they’ve received payments from the regional government for crude oil exports. Norwegian energy company DNO International confirmed it received $30 Continue Reading
Karim Yassir, the head of the Dhi Qar Oilfields Authority, is the presumptive director general of the new Dhi Qar Oil Company. (STAFF/Iraq Oil Report) The South Oil Company (SOC) Continue Reading
Iraqi oil exports averaged just over 3 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2015 – 3.36 million bpd if the autonomous Kurdistan region’s independent exports are included in the tally Continue Reading
When Iraq’s prime minister holds a meeting on Monday to discuss the monumental task of rebuilding the recently liberated city of Ramadi , officials will encounter a grim pattern: Each Continue Reading
Authorities in Iraq’s cash-strapped Kurdish region will withhold delivery of oil to the central government and export crude independently in 2016 to ensure revenue amid a global price slump, according Continue Reading
