Iraq’s Mass Group Holding has bought Romania’s Mintia thermal power plant (TPP) from Hunedoara Energy Complex (CEH) for 91.2 million euro ($91 million) in a public auction, and plans to invest over 1 billion euro in the plant in the coming years, the company’s judicial administrator Expert Insolventa said on …
Read More »Iraq is Planning to Increase Crude Oil Production
Iraq is planning to increase its crude oil production to phased targets of 5 to 8 million barrels per day (bpd) over time, according to the first vice president of the Iraq National Oil Company (INOC), Hamid Younis, last week. The director general of the Iraq Oil Exploration Company (IOEC), …
Read More »Iraq Agrees to Provide Lebanon with Fuel for another Year
Lebanon and Iraq renewed their fuel agreement today. Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said in a statement that the agreement has been renewed for one year, with the same conditions as the previous deal. Iraq and Lebanon signed an agreement last July for Iraq to provide Lebanon with 1 million …
Read More »Iraq seeking to Increase Import of Gas from Iran
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 …
Read More »Iraq Played Smart by Reducing Its Oil Price for India
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 …
Read More »Iraq to Achieve Self-Sufficiency in Oil Derivatives by 2025
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 …
Read More »Iraq Says in Talks with Iran to Increase Natural Gas Imports
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 …
Read More »U.S. Imported +450,000 Oil Barrels from Iraq Last Week
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), …
Read More »Iraq, Saudi Arabia Send Crude Oil to Europe through Egypt
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 …
Read More »EIA: U.S. Crude Imports from Iraq Surged Last Week
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 …
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