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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.
A barrage of drone attacks in the past four days highlights rising security threats stemming from regional conflicts and ...
In a meeting on May 29, senior leadership of Petronas told Oil Minister Hayyan Abdulghani the company is exploring a sale of its 45 percent operating stake to Indonesia's Pertamina, according to an ...
In a letter dated Oct. 2 to Iraq’s state oil marketing company, SOMO, which was seen by Iraq Oil Report, Turkey's state pipeline company BOTAS writes, "We would like to inform you that the part of the ...
The exact timeline for completion of the repair work remains unclear, and four different Iraqi oil officials gave varying levels of optimism around the project. Two officials said the repair work was ...
Engineer Ali Salman Majeed, the First Deputy Director General and Director of the Production Commission at Iraq's state-run South Gas Company, at his office in Basra in October 2024. (ALI ...
Workers from the state-run Iraqi Drilling Company work on a drilling rig at the East Baghdad oil field in April 2025. (Photo credit: Oil Ministry) Ben Van Heuvelen and Staff of Iraq Oil Report Tuesday ...
In early March, Iraq's COVID-19 pandemic data was cause for optimism: early adoption of restrictive lockdown measures kept cases, escalating around the world, at bay. Three months later, Iraq has one ...
Aside from overseeing the work of the Oil and Electricity ministries, the members of the Oil and Energy Committee have been tasked with finalizing long-overdue legislation for the country's oil sector ...
Officials from Iraq’s state oil marketing company (SOMO), the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), and the Turkish state pipeline company BOTAS have held a series of meetings in recent days in Turkey ...
But Iraq’s ability to pay for the gas – long hampered by U.S. sanctions on Tehran – is threatened by the Federal Supreme Court in Baghdad, which on Sunday issued a ruling limiting the current ...