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Iraqi Oil Minister Abdelkarim al-Luaybi [Luaibi, Elaibi] said on Sunday that the country plans to produce three million barrels of crude per day by the end of the year, and export 2.5 million bpd next year. The minister told a conference in the Jordanian capital Amman, which is being attended by the 46 oil firms […]
While prospects that Iraq could reach its ambitious oil production targets are fading, political instability in a number of oil-producing countries are having adverse effects on OPEC production and spare capacity, according to a new study by the Baker Institute. The report says that the international community is very likely to be reliant on Iraq […]
The governor of Iraq's Wasit [Wassit] province, Mahdy al-Zubaidy, has announced that production at the al-Ahdab oilfield has reached 60,000 barrels per day (bpd). According to a report from Bloomberg, he went on to say that the field’s output capacity will increase to 120,000 bpd by the end of the year, while Oil Minister Abdul […]
Iraq is planning to produce 12 million barrels of crude oil per day (bpd) by the year 2017, through contracts signed with the world’s largest oil and energy companies, Iraq’s Deputy Prime-Minister, in charge of Energy Affairs said on Saturday. According to Aswat al-Iraq, Hussein al-Shahristani said in a speech he delivered at the 3rd […]
Iraq has committed to providing accurate figures about its oil revenues by agreeing to verify details of its oil industry with the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). Eddie Rich, deputy head and regional director of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), told RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq (RFI) on June 24 that Iraq "is in the […]
By Gavin Jones, Director of Iraq Business News, and Partner at consultancy firm Upper Quartile. "Something we could not have predicted five months ago is that Iraq would emerge as the most advanced Arab democracy in the entire region. As messy as it is, when you think back to the months and months that it […]
Output at the West Qurna oil field in Basra has increased by 26% since March, reaching 347,000 barrels per day (bpd), according to AKnews. Madi Abdul-Razzaq, director of the operations committee said: "We have a number of new projects to increase production to 400,000 bpd by the end of 2011. The increased production in West […]
The chief executive of BP, a major foreign player in Iraq's oil industry, said the country's output is likely to be only half the government's official target at the end of this decade, due to infrastructure problems, according to Reuters. "Five to six million barrels per day is maybe a more realistic level," Bob Dudley […]
Iraq’s oil production has risen to 2.63 million barrels a day, up by 15 percent from the same period last year, according to Bloomberg. Crude exports averaged 2.18 million barrels a day in the first five months of 2011 and are expected to increase in the second half of the year, Hussain al-Shahristani, deputy prime […]
Iraq will cut its 'overambitious' oil targets, the oil minister, Abdul-Kareem Luaibi [Elaibi] said on Tuesday. AKnews reports that the country had planned to up output to 12 million barrels per day (bpd) by 2017, but now aims for 8 million bpd within 13 or 14 years. Independent experts had challenged the ability of Iraq’s […]
Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs, Hussein al-Shahristani, has said that Iraq has oil reserves of 200 billion barrels, according to Aswat al-Iraq. This would place Iraq in third place in the worldwide rankings of oil reserves. While the officially-announced oil reserves are 143 billion barrels, the report says that this does not include […]
Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister for energy, Hussain al-Shahristani (pictured), said on Sunday that Iraq does not plan to lower its target for oil production of 12 million barrels per day or to re-negotiate contracts with oil firms over their plateau targets. "Absolutely not. There is no intention at all to renegotiate the contracts," Shahristani told […]
