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By John Lee. Iraqi oil minister Abdul Kareem al-Luaibi [Elaibi] (pictured) has said that parliament set up a high-level delegation several days ago to resolve the oil export dispute between Baghdad and Erbil, and he expects a deal to be reached within days. According to Reuters, Ankara is awaiting Iraq's blessing before allowing exports to […]
By John Lee. Iraq's giant oil field West Qurna 2, with a minimum 14 billion barrels of recoverable reserves, began production on Saturday as Lukoil opened spigots to put 140,000 barrels a day onto the market. By the end of the year the field is set to produce 400,000 bpd, putting Iraq on track for […]
By John Lee. Surprising skeptics, the International Energy Agency has announced that Iraq's oil exports have hit 3.6 million bpd, a record 30 year high, The Wall Street Journal reports. Previously exports were falling due to export bottlenecks, bad weather and extensive work on infrastructure, while some northern areas such as Kirkuk were adversely affected by insecurity. […]
By John Lee. Iraq is to invest in the construction of a refinery in East Borneo, Indonesia. Indonesian Energy and Mines Minister, Jero Wacik (pictured), said that if construction started this year, the new refinery would start production by 2018. Platts reports that the head of the Iraqi delegation, Delman N Abdullah, said that Iraq agreed […]
By John Lee. Iraq produced oil at a rate of 3.5 million bpd in February, and exported at a rate of 2.8 million bpd, a sharp month-on-month gain and the highest such figure in at least a quarter-century, reports AFP. The deputy prime minister for energy affairs, Hussain Al Shahristani (pictured), said February output would have […]
By John Lee. Following remarks by Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussein al-Shahristani (pictured) that Kurdish Regional Government oil exports will go through the State Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) officials from the KRG have moved to clarify that this is not in fact the case. KRG spokesman Safeen Dizayee remarked to reporters that while discussions […]
By John Lee. Intensive competition to supply China's oil demand has combined with slowing demand for oil globally, and this is putting downward pressure on oil prices in 2014, Reuters reports. Iraq and Russia have positioned themselves to be long term suppliers of the Asian giant, squeezing out African and Latin American producers trying to improve […]
By John Lee. A delegation from the Kurdish Regional Government, including Iraqi Kurdish Prime Minister Nerchivan Barzani and Natural Resources Minister Ashti Hawrami (pictured) are in Baghdad to resolve the long running dispute over oil exports from the KRG, Reuters reports. The drive to solve the row over exports gained new urgency in 2011 when […]
By John Lee. India's Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) aims to increase crude imports from Iraq by 8 percent to about 65,000 bpd in the year to the end of March 2015, as it takes up better terms offered by Baghdad. The company's director of refineries, B. K. Namdeo, told Reuters that Iraq is offering 60 days' […]
By John Lee. Oil exports from Iraq to Jordan have been halted due to deteriorating security in Anbar province, according to a report from Reuters. A spokesman for the Ministry of Oil said: "Due to security developments in Anbar and because the transfer of oil to Jordan is done by truck, which needs safe passage […]
By John Lee. The Iraqi government has reportedly engaged the law firm Vinson and Elkins to target buyers of the crude oil which they say is being illegally exported from Iraqi Kurdistan. A anonymous Iraqi source told Reuters: “This is not a game. Anyone who buys this oil is doing something illegal ... We will target […]
By John Lee. Iraq and Iran, which together hold more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia, are planning to challenge Saudi Arabia's grip on OPEC and its status as the "swing producer" in the cartel, according to a report from The Telegraph. With Iraq poised to triple its capacity to 9 million bpd by 2020, the result […]
