Iraq set to boost northern oil exports with trucking from south

Oil Ministry aims to leverage a new commercial structure to meet the daunting challenges of scaling up overland crude transport.
A crew from Iraq's State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP) lays a pipeline in August 2026 to support a planned increase in crude trucking to Khor al-Zubair in Basra. (Photo credit: SCOP)
Staff of Iraq Oil Report
Friday, September 4th, 2026

Iraq's Oil Ministry is poised to increase oil exports through the northern pipeline system by selling crude to companies in Basra for overland trucking, according to multiple senior Iraqi oil officials.

The trucking is likely to begin "within days," according to a senior official at Iraq's oil marketing company, SOMO, and will contribute to a rising trajectory of northern export volumes.

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