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

ISTANBUL - Turkey has officially informed Iraq that the northern export pipeline is ready to operate, shifting the onus onto Iraq to restore 475,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude to global markets.

At least one person is dead and several injured after security forces cracked down on unemployed truck drivers demanding work ...

BASRA - The name of Iraq's largest state-owned upstream oil company now reflects the name of Iraq's oil capital: the South Oil Company (SOC) has officially become the Basra Oil Company (BOC). In an ...

A multi-billion-dollar water supply project that is critical for boosting production at Iraq’s southern oil fields is beginning to take shape, with a first phase scheduled for completion in four years ...

BASRA - Security forces in Basra are continuing to struggle with an array of challenges, including violence near oil fields between rival tribes, tensions with paramilitary groups, and a rise in mafia ...

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. ...

BASRA - The state-run Iraqi Oil Tankers Company (IOTC) handles the lucrative export of fuel oil from southern Iraq, shuttling the refined product to floating storage in the Basra Gulf. IOTC also helps ...

ERBIL - The Kurdistan Regional Government’s Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has issued a directive to field operators that they have 18 months to halt the flaring of associated gas that is ...

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 ...

Iraq's most prolific oil field temporarily lost about 120,000 bpd of production after 60 wells were taken offline in response to a storage tank fire. A fire burns at Degassing Station 5 off the ...

BAGHDAD - The Qayarah heavy oil field in Ninewa province has resumed production at a rate of 33,000 barrels per day (bpd), of which 30,000 bpd has been allocated for export, the Ministry of Oil said ...