Oil’s $1 Trillion Question
If it wasn’t a sales pitch, it really sounded like one. “Aramco is by far the lowest-cost producer,” said Khalid al-Falih, the Saudi oil minister, at the Future Investment Initiative Continue Reading
Is This The Cure To Saudi Arabia’s Oil Curse?
“Tourist visas will be introduced soon,” The Times quoted Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, the head of the Saudi tourism authority, as saying. Currently, Saudi Arabia is issuing visas Continue Reading
Kurdistan Accuses Iraq Of Dishonesty After Kirkuk Attack
al-Masdar news . The Iraqi military’s attacks on Kurdish targets show “ongoing military aggression and unconstitutional demands”, the Peshmarga says. The Kurdish military says it has been put in the Continue Reading
Iraq seeks to reshape northern oil sector
Iraq is in the process of adjusting to a paradigm shift in its northern oil sector, after the federal government took control of Kirkuk following an Oct. 16 military operation. Continue Reading
Iraq wants control of Kurdish region’s oil exports: state firm
Iraq wants the Kurdistan region to stop independent crude exports and to hand over sales operations to the Iraqi state-oil marketer SOMO, the company’s director said on Thursday. Iraq is Continue Reading
Russia and Iran sign $30bn energy agreements
Russia and Iran have signed agreements to collaborate on “strategic” energy deals worth up to $30bn that will involve energy groups such as Rosneft and Gazprom. Amir Hossein Zamaninia, Iran’s Continue Reading
Tensions Rise As Iraq Halts Kirkuk Oil Exports
Since the Iraqi army took control of the fields in the oil-rich Kirkuk area in mid-October, reports of disruptions in oil flows have been a daily occurrence, but now, according Continue Reading
Russia’s Gazprom To Help Build Iran-India Gas Pipeline
Russia’s state-controlled gas giant Gazprom will take part in a project for the construction of a gas pipeline between Iran and India, Russian media quoted Energy Minister Alexander Novak as Continue Reading
Baghdad halts Kirkuk oil exports to Turkey
Days after the federal North Oil Company restarted exports through the KRG-controlled pipeline, the Oil Ministry ordered a stop. The Jabal Bor production and gas oil separation stations of Kirkuk’s Continue Reading
Supreme Leader Khamenei says U.S. is Iran’s ‘number one enemy’: TV
The United States is Iran’s “number one enemy” and Tehran will never succumb to Washington’s pressure over a multinational nuclear deal, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a Continue Reading