Iraq’s oil ministry said Monday there are no plans to shutter the al-Ahdab oil field in the southeastern province of Wasit due to protests in OPEC’s second largest oil producer, Continue Reading
The Kurdistan semi-autonomous region of Iraq is ready to hand over to the federal government 250,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil production and the oil revenues it generates, Middle Continue Reading
For nine years, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has waged a brutal civil war against his enemies and allowed his friends to profit from it. Now, he’s squeezing those same allies Continue Reading
Guards take the temperature of people entering a mall in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 12. Muhammed, right, has worked as a mall security guard for the past six years. Continue Reading
Saudi Arabia’s oil giant Aramco has slashed by up to 30 percent its crude oil allocations to at least three buyers in Asia for June, compared to what customers had Continue Reading
A small and tedious-looking announcement of the ratification of a bylaw relating to the issuance of securities appeared on Iranian government-affiliated websites last week and was unsurprisingly ignored by the Continue Reading
Saudi Arabia’s loss of oil market share in China last month to Russia and Iraq is likely to be fleeting, with analysts saying shipments from the kingdom to Asia’s largest Continue Reading
The Islamic State group capitalized on deteriorating U.S.-Iraqi relations as a pandemic further distracted the unfinished fight against it. An official ceremony at Balad base for Iraq to receive four Continue Reading
Saudi Aramco has informed at least one Japanese refiner that it will reduce the refiner’s June-loading crude allocations by 20%-40%, a source at the Japanese refiner told S&P Global Platts. Continue Reading
Saudi Arabia announced late Tuesday that the whole country would go into 24-hour lockdown for the five-day holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan in 10 days. Continue Reading
