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April 21, 2024
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's trip to Iraq after over a decade is expected to bolster bilateral relations and add momentum to a vast...
December 7, 2023
Export volumes are expected to slide further as Iraq makes new OPEC-plus commitment to support prices with reduced output.
November 3, 2023
The northern export pipeline was offline for a seventh straight month, but Iraq has now compensated for about half the lost volumes with increased oil sales via southern outlets.
August 21, 2023
Exports and output are rising, but Kurdistan's oil industry is still in crisis due to the northern pipeline outage.
July 14, 2023
A $417M subsea pipeline project that was funded and then suspended over the past two months has gotten Cabinet approval again, with a half million barrel per day capacity increase slated for next year.
July 6, 2023
KRG crude exports are still shut in due to the northern pipeline outage, but federal exports have increased further, nearing the maximum capacity of outdated Basra Gulf infrastructure.
June 28, 2023
Political scrutiny of a contract is delaying a subsea pipeline project with the potential to lift export capacity by 500,000 bpd in a year.
May 23, 2023
Southern Iraq's top oil leader discusses efforts to activate a deal with TotalEnergies, expand production capacity, and overcome export infrastructure bottlenecks.
October 8, 2022
Revenues fell with global oil prices, but higher export volumes through Ceyhan helped offset a pipeline leak that temporarily halted Basra Gulf tanker loadings.
June 8, 2022
Monthly oil revenues topped $11 billion, boosted by high global prices, but export levels slipped as Iraq bumps up against infrastructure constraints.