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Iraq takes action on illicit oil schemes

U.S. designation of a key oil sector logistics provider highlights sanctions risks, prompting Iraqi measures to combat corruption in fuel trading.
Iraqi Navy vessels take part in operations to combat illicit oil sales in August 2025. (Photo credit: GCPI)

Iraq readies plans to privatize electricity sector

Two of Iraq's many needs right now are more electricity and more investment. A law being drafted could satisfy both, paving the way for foreign and domestic private companies to build power plants, a step toward fully privatizing the electricity sector. "It should be short coming," a senior U.S. official working in Baghdad on Iraq's […]

Iraq security keeps investors away, as does oil law

Security in Iraq is a major holdup to investment there, sometimes second only to the lack of a law governing Iraq's vast oil and gas reserves.Various security plans, by Iraqi and U.S. forces, are intended to break the cycle of violence, but little of the ambitions for Iraq's future will take hold until its citizens […]

The inaugural edition of the Iraq Oil Report

Iraq’s Reserves Rush Hundreds of potential investors, some of the biggest oil firms in the world, flock to Dubai for access to the reserves. I was there to watch the party: The question is simple on the third and final day of a major Iraqi energy conference where hundreds of hungry oil men and women […]