Kurdistan’s oil sector is on the upswing, with increasing volumes of crude flowing into a newly expanded 1 million barrel per day (bpd) export pipeline, just one year after the Continue Reading
Iraq ended its trucked crude to Iran nearly a month ago, multiple Iraqi oil officials told S&P Global Platts, likely leading to Washington turning its cheek to ongoing gas and Continue Reading
An oil export pipeline in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region has been upgraded to a capacity of 1 million barrels per day from 700,000 bpd, the Kurdish regional government’s natural resources Continue Reading
Iraq’s new Cabinet has proposed $24 billion in spending increases in a 2019 draft budget sent to Parliament, marking a dramatic shift away from the austerity budgets initiated when the Continue Reading
Iraq’s new oil minister Thamer Ghadhban said on Wednesday the current price of crude was “fair” and that the country, OPEC’s second-largest producer, would act responsibly in providing ample supplies Continue Reading
With a week to go until U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil snap back, it’s not only Iranian crude exports that the United States looks to cut. Iran’s neighbor Iraq currently Continue Reading
Iraq should be exempted from U.S. sanctions against Iran because of the heavy reliance of the former on the latter for gas and electricity supplies, a senior Iraqi official told Continue Reading
Veteran Ghadhban appointed new oil minister Iraq hoping to boost oil capacity to 8 million b/d by 2025 IEA upbeat on progress of gas capture plans Baghdad — Iraq’s appointment Continue Reading
Iraq will proceed with plans to increase oil and gas production capacity, Oil Minister Thamer Ghadhban said, according to an emailed statement from his ministry on Friday. Ghadhban is among Continue Reading
Former Iraqi Oil Minister Thamir Ghadhban will be nominated to return to the post, sources close to the ongoing government formation process told S&P Global Platts Wednesday. Prime Minister-designate Adel Continue Reading
