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A new deal for oil and budget cooperation between Baghdad and Erbil faces significant challenges to implementation, including crippling attacks on Kurdistan's oil sector.
Drones struck Tawke and Ain Sifni on Wednesday, marking three consecutive days of attacks on Kurdistan oil fields.
Attack on HKN-operated Sarsang field coincides with the company's signing of a preliminary upstream deal with the federal Oil ...
Longtime energy MP talks about U.S. pressure on Baghdad and Erbil, the blame he places on KRG oil tactics, and the upside of ...
SULAIMANIYA/BASRA - Over a month after Baghdad cut off critical budget support to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), ...
Iraq's crude sales held steady month-on-month despite minor disruptions apparently stemming from the Israel-Iran war.
NASSIRIYA - Malaysia’s Petronas has told Iraq it wants to sell its stake as operator of the 155,000 barrel per day (bpd) Gharraf oil field — the latest sign that international oil companies are ...
Now that the Dhi Qar Oil Company has been spun off, the Oil Ministry rechristened SOC as the Basra Oil Company.
The Iraqi government is terminating its contract with the Ukranian company Ukrzemresurs to develop the Akkas gas field, drawing threats of a legal fight over the embattled project less than a year ...
Hunt Oil knew KRG oil deal in disputed territory According to a State Dept. cable from Iraq, and despite the U.S. Embassy's warnings, the oil company of a George W. Bush intelligence adviser signed a ...
The state-operated field in Basra could become the centerpiece of an integrated project led by China’s Geo Jade and Iraqi private firm Hilal al-Basra.
Iraq has been transferring up to 190,000 barrels per day (bpd) of straight-run high sulfur heavy fuel oil (HSFO) to traders nominated by Iran, two senior Iraqi Oil Ministry officials familiar with the ...