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 ...

FALLUJAH - Long-awaited electricity imports from Jordan are almost ready to start, promising to boost power supplies to underserved parts of western Iraq. Last month Iraq’s state-owned Midland ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...