Oil

Tensions Rise Between Arabs and Kurds in Iraq

Turkey to develop disputed Iraqi oil territory

Kurdistan government authorities have confirmed that Turkey will invest in six exploration blocks, including two in areas rife with controversy and ethnic tension.

  • Pipe-laying machine stands beside sections of 36" diameter steel pipe, which await welding next to a trench dug 5 km west of the town of Sumel in Dohuk province. (PATRICK OSGOOD/Iraq Oil Report)

    Kurdistan export pipeline nearly complete

    A nearly complete natural gas pipeline has been turned toward the Turkish border for crude exports, bolstering the KRG's threats to sell its oil with or without Baghdad's cooperation.

  • Alaa Mohie el-Deen, the head of Iraq's Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, gives a press conference in February 2013. (STAFF/Iraq Oil Report)

    Q&A: Alaa Mohie el-Deen

    The leader of Iraq's push for oil sector transparency discusses Iraq's latest EITI report, as well as the challenges of integrating Kurdistan into the process.

  • Mohammed Hatta Rajasa (left), Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, and Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs Hussain al-Shahristani, meeting March 14, 2013, when the two countries signed an energy and economics memorandum of understanding. (source: the office of the deputy prime minister)

    Pertamina claims offer for West Qurna stake

    Indonesia's economy minister, in Baghdad to sign energy cooperation agreement, says state firm wants up to 20 percent of the super-giant Basra field being developed by ExxonMobil.

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