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Iraqi oil production continues edging higher in October

Nationwide crude output has risen steadily since May as the OPEC-plus group has relaxed quotas.
A worker with the state-run Iraqi Drilling Company performs reclamation work at the West Qurna 1 oil field in Basra, in October 2025. (Photo credit: IDC)

Q&A: Nazm Dabakh, KRG representative to Iran

After Kurdistan abruptly stopped oil exports to Iran - and then quickly resumed them - the KRG's emissary to Tehran discusses bilateral relations in the age of renewed U.S. sanctions.

Kurdistan halts oil exports to Iran

Hundreds of trucks per day had been carrying crude and other oil products across the border, but the KRG has ordered the trade to stop.

Record production continues in January

In light of an OPEC quota agreement, Iraq has made steep cuts at state-run fields, but those reductions are being offset by long-planned increases at IOC-operated projects.