The Oil Ministry made major cuts at state-operated fields in October in a bid to answer OPEC-plus concerns over quota compliance.
Political scrutiny of a contract is delaying a subsea pipeline project with the potential to lift export capacity by 500,000 bpd in a year.
Ankara sent a technical delegation to Baghdad but the two sides seem far from the top-level political agreement needed to restart oil flows.
Northern pipeline outage gives Baghdad leeway for southern output increases despite tightened OPEC-plus quotas.
Another new contracting round builds on recent momentum to attract investors and raise domestic gas supplies.
Iraq's oil marketing chief discusses Russia-related oil market dynamics, the restart of Qayarah crude exports, and recent steps to activate the TotalEnergies mega-deal.
New budget law appears to represent a rejection of the recent Baghdad-Erbil political deals that had sought to balance oil and financial authorities.
Upset about provisions in Iraq's draft budget law, refinery employees are shutting down tanker traffic and threatening a crippling fuel shortage.
Baghdad has compensated for lost exports via Turkey with increased southern oil sales, but KRG exports remain entirely offline.
Politicians are bristling at contractual terms that many investors demand to help protect them from the dysfunction of Iraq’s investment climate.
A subsea pipeline project could lift export capacity by 500,000 bpd in just over a year, but the funds can't be released until Iraq passes a new budget.
