Output stable after suspected inside job attack

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An investigation is ongoing into a bombing of a tank farm in Basra, but production and exports are steady after a brief slowdown.

  • Iraqi Southern Oil Company engineers look towards the natural gas flares in the Zubair oil field in southern Iraq on January 21, 2010. (ESSAM AL-SUDANI/AFP/Getty Images)

    Final month for Shell gas deal

    A top Iraqi gas official said March meetings are a deadline for proposed joint venture with Royal Dutch Shell and Mitsubishi.

  • Tankers retroffited by a smugglers' operation to hide as much as half of their fuel load are discovered by the Iraqi Oil Police. (BEN LANDO/Iraq Oil Report)

    No country for oil smugglers

    Iraq's Oil Police have seized the momentum in the country’s battle against outlaw smugglers, and Iraq Oil Report is along for the ride. With production set to skyrocket, their challenge has just begun.

Iraq targets logistics hurdles

Iraqi Oil Minister Abdul Karim Luaibi (right) next to Transportation Minister Hadi al-Ameri and Vice President Adel Abdel Mahdi at the Transportation Ministry's oil development conference Jan. 12 (STAFF/Iraq Oil Report)

Iraq's Transportation Ministry holds a conference aimed to facilitate collaboration among government ministries and foreign oil companies in support of the upcoming, massive oil production increase.

Iraq’s production and exports hit records as the northern pipeline experiences security

Plus: *Shell and South Gas Company to team up on joint venture *Turkey and Syria eyeing Akkas gas field More of Iraq's oil has seen the light of day and exports have realized post-invasion records as measures to stem attacks and other interference have proved successful along the key northern pipeline system. Some who used [...]

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U.S. watchdog cites KBR, U.S. and Iraq governments for poor south oil reconstruction

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