Across the country Iraqis switch from electricity off the national grid to that from personal generators to nothing at all. It can be confusing, especially when statistics show power generation and capacity has increased.
Iraq Oil Report posed this quandary to Karim Waheed Hasan, the minister of electricity. He also talked about whether he will stay on a minister in the new government and what is holding back his master plan (and what he's doing to manage it, like importing fuel and electrici…
Iraq could export more crude from its southern al-Basra Oil Terminal if there was development onshore of key infrastructure, terminal manager Shukour Taha says. He insists the massive planned increase in exports will be able to reach market through the oil platform he is in charge of.
"Any time, anyhow, any minute you will see the workers and manager and the South Oil Company loading the oil," said Taha, in an interview in his oil platform office, painted a sky blue that's in contrast to the …
When Ali al-Obaidi was sent to take over the Beiji refinery in 2007, he estimated $1 billion was being siphoned by smugglers. U.S. and Iraqi officials said much of that funded the operations of insurgents.
More than two years have passed and output at the country's largest refinery has increased and smuggling from the facility drastically down.
Instead of receiving the accolades Obaidi gets arrest warrants and death threats.
Obaidi was so pessimistic about what this means for Iraq's…
The benchmark for foreign investment in Iraq's oil sector – and, for that matter, any energy sector in the world – is whether it would see the entry of the world's most profitable oil company on record.
And Exxon Mobil has. It is the only American company to take an operator's role in one of the 10 deals the Iraqi Oil Ministry signed with foreign firms.
Along with junior partner Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon will turn the 8.7 billion barrel West Qurna Phase 1 from a super-giant producing le…
Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani talks to Iraq Oil Report about what the recently signed oil deals means for Iraq, and what is left to do before KRG oil deals get the green light.
Gazprom executive Alexander Kolomatsky spoke with Iraq Oil Report about the cost to develop the Badra oil field, which may be part in Iran, raising issues of sanctions and security.
Iraq Oil Report spoke to Mounir Bouaziz, Shell’s vice president for Middle East & North Africa, about what it will take to truly secure oil and gas investments in Iraq.
Iraqi government spokesman talks about dispute with the Kurds, Kuwait and the post-election legitimacy of the oil deals signed with foreign companies.
Karim Waheed Hasan talks about increasing the power supply but being outpaced by demand, disputes with other ministries, worsening security and sectarianism and politics.
Iraq could export more crude from its southern al-Basra Oil Terminal if there was development onshore of key infrastructure, terminal manager Shukour Taha says.
The director general of the Beiji oil refinery, Ali al-Obaidi, sees a future of violence and corruption that could cripple the facility he saved two years ago.
