In oil-rich northern province of Kirkuk, stand-off remains over Baghdad’s March decision to suspend crude oil exports through Turkey. Beirut - Iraq has maintained record crude oil export levels, registering 3.175 million barrels per day (bpd) in May and June, despite no crude oil exports from Kirkuk through the Turkish port of Ceyhan due to renewed political problems
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Iraq has positively surprised oil majors by starting quickly to repay accumulated debts, the head of Russia's Lukoil said, pledging more investment to allow OPEC's second-largest producer to maintain stellar output growth. Iraq has become the world's fastest-growing oil producer with output up 50 percent since it signed contracts worth tens of billions of dollars with the li
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This incisive article first published by GR in October 2014 sheds light on the unfolding war in Syria and the confrontation between Russia and the US. The details are emerging of a new secret and quite stupid Saudi-US deal on Syria and the so-called ISIS. It involves oil and gas control of the entire region and the weakening of Russia and Iran by Saudi Arabian flooding the w
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Water injection scheme now not expected to be completed before 2020 BAGHDAD—A stalled project aimed at sustaining Iraq’s record oil production has become a symbol of missed opportunities for a country reeling from the fall in crude prices and the war against Islamic State. The government has ramped up production to meet its large payroll and fund the battle against the Sunn
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The oil market never fails to find reasons for its volatility. The failure of the April 17 Doha meeting between Opec and non-Opec producers to freeze production at January 2016 levels immediately sent oil prices sharply down. However, the market just as quickly moved upward on supply outages, especially due to the oil workers’ strike in Kuwait, which was reported to remove 1.3
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