The latest news on Iraq Oil Exports – crude oil, oil pipelines and more – brought to you by Iraq Business News
Iraq has reportedly offered to supply oil to Pakistan with a long-term deferred payment facility. A Special Assistant to the Prime Minister said that a delegation would go to Iraq to negotiate a deal. “Oil refineries in Pakistan are designed to refine low sulphur oil [so] new refineries would be required to process Iraqi oil,” […]
Iraq began pumping oil to the first of five floating terminals in the Gulf on Sunday, according to AFP, and the terminal will be ready for exports in a few days. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki symbolically opened the valve of a pipeline that runs 535 kilometres (332 miles) from Iraq's southern oil fields to the […]
Iraq, and the entire Gulf region is nervously contemplating the risk of possible Iranian action to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to sanctions imposed by the US and EU. And that nervousness is echoed around the world, as something of the order of a quarter of the world's oil supply is shipped through […]
Bloomberg reports that Iraq would lose the capacity to export 1.7 million barrels of crude a day if Iran blocks the Strait of Hormuz. “Iraq will have to depend on the northern route from where it can export 450,000 barrels a day through Turkey’s port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean,” Oil Ministry spokesman Asim Jihad […]
Exports of crude oil from northern Iraq via the Turkish port of Ceyhan (pictured) have resumed on Monday after a three-day halt resulting from sabotage to the pipeline network in Turkey, according to Bloomberg. Ziad Ahmad al-Obaidi, an official from the North Oil Company said the initial rate was 400,000 barrels to 500,000 bpd. Iraqi […]
Iraq plans to ship 17 cargoes of Basrah Light crude oil from the Persian Gulf in the first half of February, according to a loading program obtained by Bloomberg. This would be two cargoes more than in the second half of January. A total of 28.06 million barrels, or 1.87 million barrels a day, will be […]
Advertising Feature Iraq Business News is delighted to bring you the latest Iraq Market Tracker report from Dunia Frontier Consultants. The market tracker highlights the activities and market performance of a basket of publicly traded firms who derive a significant percentage of their revenues from operations in Iraq, but are traded on foreign exchanges: a […]
The opening ceremony to inaugurate Iraq's first floating oil terminal was postponed until further notice, an Oil Ministry spokesman announced on Wednesday. Aswat al-Iraq reports that there were 'operational problems', while Bloomberg's contact gave no reason for the delay, the third since last month. The terminal, which has an export capacity of 900,000 bpd, was […]
Increased volumes and the higher price of crude oil pushed Iraq's income from oil sales up by nearly 60 percent in 2011 compared to the previous year, according to AFP. Oil ministry figures published on Monday showed that total exports of oil increased 15 percent to 790.5 million barrels of oil, or an average of […]
Iraq would be drastically affected should Iran block the Hormuz Strait. Most of the oil Iraq produces is exported via the Strait. The scenario is seeing Iraq, distinct because of its good relations with both the US and Iran, practice its new diplomacy again, according to this article from NIQASH. Any opinions expressed are those […]
The first of four new single-point mooring facilities will be ready to commence operations on Jan. 25, according to a report from Bloomberg. If correct, this would be a pull-forward of the schedule reported by Reuters on 4th Jan. Dhia Jaafar, director general of South Oil Company, said the project involves laying pipelines, building eight […]
Bloomberg reports that Iraq will increase its exports of Kirkuk crude for January from the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan (pictured) by 3.5 percent from last month. The loading program obtained by comprises 18 cargoes totaling 13.88 million barrels, or 447,742 barrels a day, compared with 432,677 barrels a day for December. The cargo sizes […]
