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Spokesman for Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity said that the country was negotiating for more electricity to be imported from Iran. Ahmed al-Ebadi said in an interview with the Iraqi news outlet Middle East News on Saturday that Baghdad was negotiating with Iran to import more electricity. Al-Ebadi said that the …

India is among the top importers of crude oil, depending on foreign fuels to meet 85% of its requirements. And it seems to have put its overdependence on imported oil to its advantage when the Ukraine war pushed the fuel prices in the global markets. Saudi Arabia seems to have …

The Iraqi Minister of Oil, Ihsan Abdul Jabbar, announced on Sunday that Iraq is the only country capable of producing the largest amount of crude oil among the crude oil producing countries in the coming years, according to the AlSabaah newspaper. Jabbar confirmed that Iraq has surplus production ready to …

The Iraqi Ministry of Electricity says it is in talks with Iran for securing a rise in imports of natural gas from its eastern neighbor as Baghdad works to inaugurate new power plants fueled by natural gas. Ahmad al-Ebadi, a spokesman for the ministry, said the volume of gas imports …

U.S. crude oil imports from Iraq averaged 165,000 oil barrels per day (bpd) last week, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) revealed. According to the report, last week’s oil imports from Iraq amounted to 454,000 barrels (165,000 bpd). Iraq followed the United States’ top crude oil suppliers, Canada (3.308 million bpd), …

Iraq and Saudi Arabia are working on sending their crude oil to Europe in an effort to help the continent’s oil refineries which are desperately trying to give up the oil supplies from Russia. According to a report recently published by Bloomberg, more than one million barrels per day of …

The U.S. crude oil imports from Iraq averaged 456 thousand barrels per day (bpd) last week, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on the weekend. In its weekly report on U.S. oil imports, EIA said that the U.S. net oil imports averaged 5.722 million bpd last week, up by 439 …

The federal government in Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdish region pledged Saturday to “increase dialogue” to ease a simmering oil dispute that has been playing out in the courts in recent months. The announcement came during a rare visit to the Iraqi capital by the Kurdish region’s prime minister. Masrour …

Two solar power projects were reportedly given to Chinese corporations by Iraq. This is in accordance with a contract deal between Iraq and China that was reached in 2019 led by former Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi. Both solar installations are in the Al-Muthanna Governorate, which borders Saudi Arabia …

Saudi Arabia and Iraq are helping Europe wean off of Russian crude, which is increasingly headed to Asia, as Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine reshuffles the global energy market. Europe has imported more than 1 million barrels per day via the SuMed pipeline in the first three weeks of July, …