Islamic State incursions highlight Iraq’s counter-insurgency challenges
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A major initiative to restructure Iraq's oil sector appears to be on hold as the new Cabinet prepares to re-draft the legal foundation of the Iraq National Oil Company.
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Dissatisfied with the work of three technical experts tasked with providing analysis, the Supreme Court postpones the six-year-old lawsuit until Dec. 9.
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Iraqi crude output continued a steady rise in October, although bad weather put a damper on exports and highlighted infrastructure constraints.
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Q&A Ihsan Ismaael, Basra Oil Company director general
Ismaael talks about IOC and BOC oil production growth, projects to reduce gas flaring, and the status of crucial infrastructure development.
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Q&A: SOMO Director General Alaa al-Yassiri
Iraq's oil marketing chief discusses rising export capacity, OPEC dynamics, oil trading joint ventures, and the status of a nascent hedging program.
Pipeline and payments fuel Kurdistan’s oil sector revival
Kurdistan's oil sales are steadily growing; a Rosneft-funded oil pipeline has finally reached the 1 million bpd benchmark; and oil companies are getting paid.
Iraqi Cabinet decisions: Nov. 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.
Villages evacuate as rising insurgency targets new territory
Outside of northern Iraq’s fortified urban centers, insurgents have prevented resettlement in rural areas and are now causing residents to flee from villages previously considered safe.
Basra’s Poisonous Water Demands International Action
Hundreds of ISIS fighters ‘trying to cross into Iraq from Syria’
Iraq to exchange food for Iranian gas, seeks U.S. approval: government officials
Violence targets medical workers, patients preventing care in Iraq
Iran, feeling sanctions bite, looks for outlet in Iraq
Kurdish women pedal, dunk, spike as Iraq’s top athletes
Anger is simmering among Iraq’s Kurdish youth
Iraq rail service back on track after war with Islamic State
