The widely respected geologist, whose career spanned decades in both federal Iraq and Kurdistan, died May 1 after contracting coronavirus.
Saudi Arabia's Delta Oil Company is a potential partner along with U.S. firm Schlumberger to bring badly needed investment and gas supply to Anbar province.
Several projects still wastefully burn associated gas, but a new power plant is the latest sign that Kurdistan is harnessing gas to boost electricity and reduce expensive fuel imports.
As OPEC-plus quotas ease, Iraq is bringing dormant production capacity back online.
Weeks after taking office, Dhi Qar's new governor discusses aspirations for quelling oil protests, raising employment, and attracting investment.
A Basra tribal leader discusses his business relationship with international oil companies, the need for private-sector development, and the problem of tribal violence.
Because of weaker global oil prices, Iraqi oil revenues dropped 5 percent even though exports ticked upward.
Iraq cannot pay oil companies on time under its 2021 budget law, the Oil Ministry said in an official letter seeking a legal intervention.
Nationwide oil output fell by 100,000 bpd, but the Oil Ministry is poised to bring new production online as OPEC quotas look set to ease.
Basra Oil Company's field manager at Majnoon talks foreign interest and Iraqi success in developing the field once operated by Shell.
