Ahead of a consequential election for Iraq’s energy sector, key political figures give their outlook on the upcoming vote and ...
Deadlocked talks over forming a new regional Cabinet highlight a bitter rivalry between two ruling parties that poses risks ...
Sudani administration activates a major contract with BP and strikes preliminary agreements with ExxonMobil and Chevron as ...
BASRA - Ali Shaddad al-Faris, an MP from Basra MP and veteran of the Parliament Oil and Gas Committee, said the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is to blame for the ongoing stalemate in ...
KHANAQIN - Iraq has signed a new contract for the Mansuriya gas field, overcoming last-minute investor doubts about political and security challenges in Diyala province. The Chinese firm Jereh is ...
BAGHDAD - Iraq's Parliament voted Monday to bring back the Iraq National Oil Company (INOC), three decades after it was subsumed by the Oil Ministry in a power move by Saddam Hussein. If implemented, ...
Iraq’s Oil Ministry is stepping up its efforts to boost gas production capacity, launching yet another new contract licensing round this year that is focused on 11 new gas blocks. The ministry's June ...
ERBIL - Vice President of the Kurdistan Regional of Iraq (KRI) Sheikh Jaafar Sheikh Mustafa – a longtime Peshmerga commander and senior member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party – is a ...
A Baghdad court has rejected a last-ditch effort by the federal Oil Ministry to invalidate the Kurdistan region's oil contracts, cementing a legal victory for oil companies and clearing one potential ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Kurdish oil deal knowing the field was in ...