Iraq’s government-owned oil marketing company, SOMO, announced that the average daily oil exports during the first week of September reached 2.5 million barrels. According to a table, SOMO reported that “the average daily export during the first week of September reached 2.504 million barrels at an average price of $89.203 …
Read More »Iraq Ranks Eighth in Arab Nations for Natural Gas Consumption with Annual Growth
Iraq secured the eighth position on the list of the Arab countries with the highest natural gas consumption for the previous year, with an annual growth of up to 2.1 billion cubic meters, according to the Energy Agency. The agency reported that “Saudi Arabia ranked first as the largest Arab …
Read More »EIA: Iraqi Oil Exports to U.S. Declined Last Week
Iraq, OPEC’s second largest exporter, has had its crude oil supplies to the US, the world’s second largest importer, decreased, data by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed this weekend. In the span of a week, the volume dwindled from 283,000 barrels daily to a mere 232,000 barrels — a …
Read More »Iraq Increases Discounted Oil Sales to Jordan in August
Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) has reported a rise in its exports to Jordan for August, with the price of a barrel standing at $70.22. With this price tag, Iraq has offered Jordan a discount of $13.13 per barrel, given that the official selling rate declared by Iraq’s Ministry …
Read More »TotalEnergies to Carry out 4 Large Energy Projects in Iraq
Iraq’s Basra Oil Company (BOC) announced that TotalEnergies entered into a contractual commitment to carry out four large energy projects as part of a deal concluded with the Iraqi government last July. TotalEnergies long-awaited $27 billion energy deal is expected to increase oil production and Iraq’s capacity to produce energy …
Read More »India Urges Iraq for Deeper Oil Discounts
The Indian government has formally called on Iraq to provide further concessions on oil prices, drawing parallels with the low-cost Russian crude that has emerged as India’s primary oil source since May 2022, displacing Iraq from its longstanding position. In a strategic move to diversify their oil imports and curtail …
Read More »Basra Crude Records Minor Weekly Declines amidst Global Market Price Volatility
Basra crude oil prices experienced a week of subtle downturns in response to worldwide market fluctuations. While some benchmarks reflected momentary gains, the overarching trend was marked by a fractional decline, primarily influenced by a blend of economic data and production adjustments. Basra Heavy crude concluded its Friday trading session …
Read More »Turkey Seeks Iraq Revenue-Sharing Deal to Restart Oil Flows
Turkey is attempting to broker a deal between the central Iraqi government and the semi-autonomous Kurdish administration over how to resume Iraqi crude-oil exports via its territory, according to Turkish officials. Turkey halted flows through a twin-pipeline in March after an arbitration court ordered it to pay about $1.5 billion …
Read More »Iraq Inks a Preliminary Agreement to Import Gas from Turkmenistan
Iraq has signed a preliminary agreement with Turkmenistan to import gas for energy production purposes, oil ministry said on Thursday. “The Iraqi government is committed to amplifying avenues of collaboration with our friendly nations, notably including Turkmenistan,” Deputy Minister of Oil for Gas Affairs, Azat Saber, told Shafaq News Agency, …
Read More »Iraqi Oil Exports to the U.S. Outpace Saudi Arabia as North American Intake Climbs
Iraq’s crude oil exports to the U.S. has trumped those from Saudi Arabia last week, despite a marginal decline in the rate of supply, data by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed on Sunday. Drawing on a recent data chart, the EIA illustrated that the average daily crude oil imports …
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