One month after Parliament passed legislation designed to help restart the pipeline to Turkey, implementation is mired in old ...

Ali Nazar al-Shatari will be Iraq's new head of oil marketing as the Sudani government makes changes across several top oil posts. SOMO Deputy Director General and Head of Crude Ali Nazar al-Shatari ...

Workers attempt repairs on the SPM-1 export buoy on Sept. 8, 2019. (Source: Basra Oil Company media office) ...

KIRKUK -- Security forces in Kirkuk are implementing orders from the Oil Ministry to dismantle private fuel stations around the province, in an effort to combat smuggling.

The IOTC chief discusses exports of heavy fuel oil and Qayarah crude, and ambitions to expand Iraq's fleet of oil tankers. Ali Qais Abdul Jabbar, director general of the Iraqi Oil Tankers Company, at ...

New Syria oil trade begins, despite political volatility Syria's autonomous Kurdish-led enclave has revived an energy trade supplying oil and gas to territory controlled by the transitional government ...

Kurdistan's oil companies cemented a legal victory as the final avenue for appeal has closed. Faiq Zaidan, the president of Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council (right), meets with KRG President Nechirvan ...

After steady declines in the fourth quarter of 2024, the new year started with a rise in production and modest gains in export volumes. A drilling rig operates at the Ahdab oil field in February 2025.

BAQUBA - Hundreds of protestors in Diyala province demanded the expulsion of the Turkish ambassador to Iraq, claiming his country is meddling unduly in Iraq's internal affairs. The protest, staged in ...

Iraq is running out of money. With a burgeoning debt load, authorities are making a last-ditch attempt to finance the state’s payment obligations by passing the second emergency finance bill of the ...