Eight months after national elections, Iraq still doesn’t have a government and there seems to be no clear way out of the dangerous deadlock. Political elites are embroiled in cutthroat Continue Reading
Iraq’s Oil Ministry is initiating legal action against international oil companies operating in the Kurdistan region — part of an escalating effort to implement the Federal Supreme Court’s landmark decision to invalidate Continue Reading
Iraq to further ramp up capacity to 8 mil b/d by 2028 Ihsan Ismaael has given conflicting timelines for capacity ramp-up Iraq is seeking IOC help to develop its fields Continue Reading
Salah Chelab crushed a husk of wheat plucked from his sprawling farmland south of Baghdad and inspected its seeds in the palm of one hand. They were several grams lighter Continue Reading
Iraq remains one of the most underdeveloped oil producers in the Middle East. EIA: Iraq holds a very conservatively estimated 145 billion barrels of proved crude oil reserves. At $2-3 Continue Reading
Iraq is suffering from an unusually large wave of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, a tick-born virus with a fatality rate of up to 40 percent. Case numbers are significantly higher than Continue Reading
Iraq’s state-run North Oil Company (NOC) has accused the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of deploying armed forces to control a handful of oil wells along its disputed boundary with Continue Reading
Iraq’s oil ministry thwarted three prospective deals last year that would have handed Chinese firms more control over its oilfields and led to an exodus of international oil majors that Continue Reading
A heavy sandstorm in Iraq, the latest of what Iraqis say is an unprecedented number to hit the country in recent weeks, closed some state schools and offices and halted Continue Reading
The Iraqi Kurdistan region’s fractious internal politics are threatening to derail the construction of a pipeline that could enable future natural gas exports to Turkey — a potential setback for Continue Reading
