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Baghdad-Erbil oil feud: the documents

Iraq Oil Report is publishing the oil production data used by Baghdad in accusing Erbil of smuggling and shutting in oil revenues.

Iraqi Cabinet decisions: Mar. 6, 2018

Whenever the media office of the Council of Ministers releases decisions of the Cabinet, Iraq Oil Report publishes a translation from the original Arabic.

Iraqi Cabinet decisions: Mar. 13, 2018

Whenever the media office of the Council of Ministers releases decisions of the Cabinet, Iraq Oil Report publishes a translation from the original Arabic.

Iraqi Cabinet decisions: Mar. 20, 2018

Whenever the media office of the Council of Ministers releases decisions of the Cabinet, Iraq Oil Report publishes a translation from the original Arabic.

Iraq ready for refinery pitches

Potential investors face a looming deadline to bid on four refinery deals, and Iraq Oil Report has obtained the specs and investment terms of the projects.

Iraqi Cabinet decisions: Mar. 27, 2018

Whenever the media office of the Council of Ministers releases decisions of the Cabinet, Iraq Oil Report publishes a translation from the original Arabic.

Iraqi Cabinet decisions: Mar. 12, 2019

Whenever the media office of the Council of Ministers releases decisions of the Cabinet, Iraq Oil Report publishes a translation from the original Arabic.

Iraqi Cabinet decisions: Mar. 19, 2019

Whenever the media office of the Council of Ministers releases decisions of the Cabinet, Iraq Oil Report publishes a translation from the original Arabic.

Iraqi Cabinet decisions: Mar. 5, 2019

Whenever the media office of the Council of Ministers releases decisions of the Cabinet, Iraq Oil Report publishes a translation from the original Arabic.

Bombs mar start to Iraq polls

A dozen small bombs exploded and mortar rounds landed near polling centres in Iraq on Saturday, wounding at least four people during voting in the country's first provincial elections since the departure of U.S. troops. Two mortar rounds injured three voters and a policeman at a school used as a voting centre in Latifiya, south […]

Unresolved disputes mar Iraq-Kuwait relations

Tensions rise between Iraq and Kuwait – and among Iraqi politicians – over outstanding Saddam-era reparations, border negotiations, alleged oil theft, and Gulf port development plans.

Oil spill mars Basra power plant expansion

Days after formally reopening, the newly refurbished Najibiya power plant polluted Basra's water supply. Now regulators are threatening to shut it down.

EXCLUSIVE: Full text of the new Kurdistan export deal

As Iraqi leaders take tentative steps toward oil policy reconciliation, Iraq Oil Report publishes the agreement – signed Sept. 13, but secret until now – that sets the rules of the road ahead.

Experts demand Parliament take oil action

Former Iraqi oil officials pen letter urging Parliament to unilaterally move on oil law, in a critique of Baghdad and Erbil.

Exclusive: Iraq’s two oil laws

Iraq Oil Report publishes the full English texts of the two competing oil laws drafted by the Cabinet and the Parliament.

Iraq lands first refinery investor

Swiss firm Satarem has signed a "binding MoU" to build and operate a $6 billion refinery in Missan province – the Oil Ministry's first success in attracting private refinery investment.

Iraqi Cabinet decisions: March 3, 2020

Whenever the media office of the Council of Ministers releases decisions of the Cabinet, Iraq Oil Report publishes a translation from the original Arabic.

Iraqi Cabinet decisions: Feb. 28, 2017

Whenever the media office of the Council of Ministers releases decisions of the Cabinet, Iraq Oil Report publishes a translation from the original Arabic.

Oil exports tick up in September, but revenue declined

Crude exports from southern Iraq ports increased month-on-month, with loadings further bolstered by new Kirkuk sales from Ceyhan as Baghdad-Erbil deal enters second month intact.

The U.S. war casualties the Pentagon doesn’t want you to see

The Pentagon says Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler, the Delta Force soldier who died last week in a hostage rescue mission in Iraq, was the first U.S. service member killed in action in the ISIS war. But Wheeler was not the first combat casualty. Five other service members have been “wounded in action” since the U.S. first sent […]

Iraq sets Jordan pipeline into motion

In an urgent quest for more export capacity and diverse routes, the Oil Ministry is recruiting international firms to build a 1 million bpd pipeline to Aqaba.