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Iraq and French oil major TotalEnergies has signed a long-delayed $27 billion energy deal that aims increase oil production and boost the country’s capacity to produce power with four oil, gas and renewables projects. The deal had been signed in 2021, with an initial investment of $10 billion in southern …

Iraq plans to boost its gas output by 1,500 million cubic feet over the next five years, through its recent initiative to licence exploration operations across 10 oil and gas fields in west Iraq and 13 sites on the country’s western border, stated the Minister of Oil Hayan Abdulghani. Abdulghani …

Iran’s natural gas exports to Iraq exceeded 9 billion cubic meters in 2022, according to the International Energy Institute. In a report released today, the official Iranian news agency IRNA stated that the country’s natural gas exports reached approximately 19 billion cubic meters last year, representing a growth rate of …

Iraq’s SOMO, the state-owned oil marketing company, has announced that the average price of crude oil exported to Jordan reached $58.70 per barrel during the month of June. With this, Iraq sold each barrel of crude oil to Jordan last month at a price that was $12.41 lower than the …

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) announced on Sunday that Iraq’s oil exports to the United States reached 7.5 million barrels in the previous month of June. A table published by the administration revealed that Iraq exported 7.5 million barrels of crude oil to the United States during the month of …

U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has reported a dramatic upswing in its weekly crude oil imports from Iraq, with the volumes doubling over the last week. According to EIA’s compiled data, the average daily import of crude oil from nine primary exporting nations surged to 5.709 million barrels. This represents …

Iraq is inviting international energy companies to take part in an energy bidding round to explore and develop natural gas reserves, the country’s oil minister said on Sunday. Hayan Abdel-Ghani said 11 gas exploration blocks in different parts of the country would be on offer and described them as “promising”. …

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) announced on Sunday that Iraqi oil exports to the United States have surpassed 250,000 barrels per day, establishing Iraq as America’s fourth-largest source of oil in the past week. In a report, the administration stated, “The average U.S. imports of crude oil from eight countries …

The Undersecretary of the Iraqi Oil Minister, Basim Mohammed Khudair, stated on Thursday that a Turkish delegation will meet with Iraqi officials in the oil sector in Baghdad on June 19 to discuss the resumption of oil exports from northern Iraq. Khudair elaborated that the two parties agree that it …

Already reeling from the months-long suspension of its crude exports, Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdistan region may see its lifeblood oil sector further hemmed in with the passage of the federal budget. The budget, passed June 12 following four days of late-night voting and intense debates within Iraq’s parliament — including on …