The new oil minister called a press conference Sunday to announce an increasing oil production rate and a fourth bidding round for exploration blocks.
Iraq has six months to reach payment deals with Kuwait and other creditors, a doable but critical task that will make or break the country’s financial foundations.
According to previously undisclosed communiqué, Kurdish leaders want specific oil and revenue laws passed in 2011 and say KRG should decide constitutionality of its oil deals.
The top oil adviser to the Iraqi prime minister talks about the Akkas gas field row, moderated oil production forecasts, and balancing Iraqi potential with market fundamentals.
A new court for foreign investors in Iraq to test judiciary's independence while providing a legal forum for contractual disputes, including in the oil sector.
Iraq Oil Report talks to Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh about the massive deficit spending, the budget implications on the KRG-Baghdad dispute – and how it may end.
New post to coordinate all energy policies allows PM Maliki to retain power in case he doesn't keep Oil Ministry.
As oil companies mobilize people and equipment for the coming oil boom, Iraq's minister of transportation talks about discounted tariffs for oil-sector imports and solving logistical problems at the ports.
Dhi Qar police chief Sabah al-Fatlawi, rumored to be a major security ministries player in the coming government, on whether the promise of the oil money flowing into the streets can keep persistent violence at bay.
Iraq Oil Report talks to the chief of the Oil Ministry's contracts department about the impact of government negotiations on the gas deals, removing obstacles to Iraq’s planned production boost, and the next round of potential oil contracts.
