Iraq’s Khor Mor gas field, the country’s largest non-associated gas field, has resumed operations after it shut down following a recent drone attack. Last week, a rocket struck a storage tank at the Khor Mor site, stopping production and triggering widespread power outages. The drone attack was one of the …
Read More »Iraq Ranks Third among US Oil Suppliers
Iraqi oil exports to the United States increased last week, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA.) The EIA reported on Sunday that the average US crude oil imports from 8 key countries reached 5.692 million (bpd) this week, up from 5.337 million bpd from the previous week’s average. …
Read More »Iraq’s Weekly Oil Exports to US Decline to 149,000 bpd
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) revealed on Sunday that Iraq’s weekly oil exports to the United States declined during the last week. The United States imported an average of 4.67 million barrels of crude oil per day from seven major countries last week, according to the EIA. This is …
Read More »Lukoil Declares Force Majeure at Huge Iraqi Oilfield after U.S. Sanctions
Russian oil giant Lukoil has declared force majeure at the 400,000-barrels-per-day West Qurna-2 oilfield in Iraq after the U.S. sanctions on Russia’s top oil firms, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday. Following the October 22 U.S. sanctions on Lukoil and Rosneft, Iraq has stopped all cash and …
Read More »India Races to Replace Russian Oil with U.S., Iraqi, and UAE Crude
Two Indian refiners bought a total of 5 million barrels of crude oil from the United States, Iraq, and the UAE on the spot market as they seek alternatives to Russian crude. Reuters reported, citing unnamed industry sources, that Hindustan Petroleum Corp. had bought 2 million barrels of West Texas …
Read More »Iraq to End Fuel Imports as Domestic Production “Exceeds” Demand
Iraq Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani has directed his ministry to halt imports of middle distillates such as gasoline, diesel and kerosene, claiming his country has achieved self-sufficiency through increased oil production coupled with ongoing additions of refining capacity. Iraq has ramped up oil production and exports, partly through …
Read More »BP’s US$25bn Five-Field Megadeal in Iraq is Finally Activated
Back in 2009, British oil and gas giant BP along with its then-Chinese partner China National Petroleum Corporation secured a technical services contract with Iraq’s state-owned South Oil Company to develop Iraq’s largest oil field – Rumaila – in the first such foreign exploration on the country’s energy sector in …
Read More »Iraq Negotiates Higher OPEC Oil Production Quota
Iraq is in discussions with OPEC to review its oil production quota as output capacity rises, Hayan Abdul Ghani, the Oil Minister of OPEC’s second largest producer, said on Monday. Iraq is in talks with OPEC to reassess its production quota within the country’s available production capacity of 5.5 million …
Read More »Iraq Continues to be India’s Second-Largest Oil Supplier
Iraq continued to be India’s second-largest crude oil supplier during September. According to Kpler, a prominent source of market analytics for the energy and maritime sectors, Russia remained India’s top oil supplier in September, accounting for 33.3 percent of total oil imports, Shafaq News reported. In September, India imported 1.6 …
Read More »Exxon Considers Return to Iraq
Exxon is considering a return to Iraq after leaving the country two years ago, Bloomberg reported, citing an unnamed source who said Exxon was interested in developing the massive Majnoon field. The Majnoon field has estimated reserves of 38 billion barrels, which makes it one of the biggest in the …
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