Production and expansion work continue at key gas field after yet another attack highlights unresolved Iraqi government security failures. A view of Khor Mor gas field facilities in December 2011.

Iraq's electoral commission has compiled preliminary results of the Nov. 11 national elections, providing an initial sense of the balance of power in the next Parliament. Iraq Oil Report has analyzed ...

BASRA - Oil Minister Hayyan Abdulghani has returned to his post after a prolonged health-related absence, which ignited an unresolved period of political jockeying to reshuffle parts of Iraq’s oil ...

Nationwide output increased year-on-year as Iraq's domestic refineries continued providing an elastic and expanding source of demand. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani speaks at an opening ...

Conflict between the KDP and PUK has driven dysfunction in Erbil and weakened Kurdish influence in Baghdad as a new ...

Production at Iraq's largest field is still down by at least 120,000 bpd as repair crews contend with extensive damage from a Jan. 24 fire. Fire crews bring a fire under control at the Rumaila oil ...

There is no backup plan for operating the 480,000 bpd West Qurna-2 field, with some Iraqi officials worrying production might need to be cut within weeks. A ceremony at the West Qurna 2 oil field in ...

Iraq’s Oil Ministry has begun a three-day process for awarding 29 oil and gas projects under the five-plus and sixth licensing rounds — the first time since 2018 that Iraq has held a bidding round. On ...

BASRA - Iraq is pursuing a deal for Chevron to acquire Lukoil's stake in the West Qurna 2 oil field, as a deadline approaches for new U.S. sanctions to hit the Russian company. A delegation from ...

BASRA - Security forces in Basra are continuing to struggle with an array of challenges, including violence near oil fields between rival tribes, tensions with paramilitary groups, and a rise in mafia ...

Iraqi oil production continued a four-month slide, falling to its lowest level since June 2023 as the Oil Ministry tried to improve compliance with an OPEC-plus quota agreement. Federal output was ...

UPDATE: This story has been updated to reflect the Oil Ministry’s revised official export figures for February. The original data showed 3.308 million bpd in federal exports, yielding an Iraq Oil ...