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Oil Ministry cuts output at Majnoon and other state-run southern fields in effort to meet OPEC-plus expectations.
The new leader of Iraq’s state-run well drilling firm discusses plans to expand its rig fleet and increase revenues.
The Oil Ministry has issued major upward revisions of its February and March export figures, while preliminary data show a ...
Ahmed Rasheed writes for Reuters: Islamic State's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi stood up in Mosul's Grand al-Nuri Mosque on July 4 2014, revealing himself to the world for the first time, declaring holy ...
Zaid Al-Ali writes for the New York Review of Books: On June 11, 2014, Mahmoud, a sixty-year-old employee at a school in Tikrit, Iraq, drove home for his afternoon nap. Thirty minutes later, he ...
BP CEO Murray Auchincloss (standing, left), and Oil Minister Hayyan Abdulghan (standing, right) oversee the signing of a deal for BP to rehabilitate Kirkuk oil fields and build gas processing and ...
Cabinet taps state-run Midland Oil Company as operator for fast-track gas field development with help from SLB, but contentious ouster of Ukrzemresurs could spark litigation. Personnel from the ...
Iraq’s biggest oil field has recovered from a January fire, boosting nationwide output but posing a challenge to OPEC-plus quota compliance. Workers from the state-run Iraqi Drilling Company work on a ...
The Basra MP talks about the prospects for and obstacles to energy sector development in southern Iraq, Kirkuk, and Kurdistan. Adnan al-Jaberi, an independent MP from Basra and member of the ...