Iraq’s northern exports at risk with imminent expiration of Turkey treaty

The agreement governing the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline is set to expire on July 27, raising the likelihood that Iraq could lose its main wartime oil export outlet and revenue source.

An oil jetty at the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan in Turkey, photographed in September 2003. (YORAY LIBERMAN/Getty)

Energy

Iraq oil output hits new multi-decade low

A trickle of tanker loadings points to an emerging wartime export cadence that has forced over two-thirds of Iraq's production offline.

Politics

Analysis: Worsening internal rivalries weaken KRG at key political juncture

Conflict between the KDP and PUK has driven dysfunction in Erbil and weakened Kurdish influence in Baghdad as a new government takes power.

Security

Akkas gas field falters despite increasing power needs

Even as wartime supply disruptions push Iraq toward a summertime electricity crisis, the Akkas gas field is producing at a fraction of its potential.

Interviews

Q&A: Bassim Mohammed Khudair, Deputy Oil Minister for Upstream

Iraq's top upstream oil official confirms that production, curtailed by war, is ready to surge back online — but only once ships can reliably resume Basra Gulf export loadings.