The Basra MP talks about the prospects for and obstacles to energy sector development in southern Iraq, Kirkuk, and Kurdistan.

Export volumes declined in March, but Iraq also revised its official February figure sharply upward as OPEC-plus shifts is ...

Hard-liners in Baghdad appear to be rejecting compromise with oil companies in negotiations to reopen the northern pipeline to Turkey.

BAGHDAD - Iraq will not pass its 2014 federal budget before national elections on April 30, according to several members of Parliament – a setback that threatens to complicate the formation of a new ...

The expiration of a U.S. sanctions waiver on Iranian electricity imports is complicating Baghdad's balancing act between Tehran and Washington, while the government scrambles for power supply ahead of ...

BASRA - One of Iraq’s most politically consequential energy projects is the so-called “Challenge Project”: a pipeline that could facilitate gas supply to fuel electricity generation this summer and ...

Iraq's nationwide crude production fell by about 60,000 barrels per day (bpd) in February, largely due to a partial outage at the Rumaila oil field caused by a large fire that destroyed a storage tank ...

SULAIMANIYA - Ahmad Salman is uniquely positioned to give insight into the future of Syria's oil sector after the fall of the Assad regime. As a geologist who served in the Syrian Petroleum Company ...

BASRA - Iraq’s Parliament is engaging with a variety of energy-related legislation and oversight – but a national oil law is not on the agenda. Ali Shaddad al-Faris, a member of the Parliament Oil, ...

Iraq's oil production recovered steadily in 2021 — rising from just over 4 million barrels per day (bpd) in January to nearly 4.5 million bpd in December — as the OPEC-plus group continues to loosen ...