The American company is emerging as the leading contender for the 480,000 bpd West Qurna 2 field as U.S. sanctions appear to ...

Increasing pipeline flows to Turkey were offset in November by ongoing reductions in Basra Gulf exports following a deadly ...

Baghdad, Erbil, and oil companies appear to be implementing some key terms of a three-way oil export and budget deal, but ...

Most of Kurdistan's power generation is offline after yet another attack on a key gas field, highlighting the Iraqi government’s failure to enforce the rule of law on powerful militant groups. A view ...

Iraqi oil sales jumped by 173,000 barrels per day (bpd) in October as pipeline exports from the Kurdistan region came back online. Nationwide exports averaged 3.578 million bpd, according to Oil ...

Iraq's nationwide output rises slightly as OPEC-plus continues loosening quotas. Workers from the state-run Iraqi Drilling Company operate a rig at the West Qurna 1 oil field in Basra in August 2025. ...

Kurdistan's gas pipeline network isn't ready for all of the new capacity now coming online, raising the prospect of sales to federal Iraq. The Khor Mor gas field in Iraqi Kurdistan, in 2011. (BEN VAN ...

Test flows are expected to begin Saturday as Baghdad, Erbil, and IOCs reach agreement on cooperative pipeline exports via Turkey. A worker checks the valve gears of pipes linked to oil tanks at Turkey ...

BASRA - The Iraqi government is taking measures to respond to alleged illicit oil sales following a U.S. sanctions enforcement action in late July that targeted a major fuel logistics provider. The ...

SULAIMANIYA/BASRA - Over a month after Baghdad cut off critical budget support to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the crisis remains unresolved because the two sides cannot agree on an array ...

Basra's Tuba oil field is the centerpiece of a Chinese-Iraqi consortium's mega-deal that includes upstream, refining, petrochemicals, and power generation. Oil Minister Hayyan Abdulghani (second from ...

After decades working his way up through the state-run Basra Oil Company and its predecessor, the South Oil Company, Hassan Mohammed Hassan has become the acting director general of the Oil Ministry’s ...