Iraqi gas imports have fallen by about 70 percent after Iran scheduled a temporary pipeline maintenance period to prioritize its own energy supply.
Supreme Court gives the Iraqi PM seven weeks to sign updated pleading documents.
Three days before the expiration of a prior waiver, the U.S. has decided to continue to refrain from punishing Iraq for essential gas and power imports.
Lukoil has upgraded an assessment of its Block 10 exploration results – the latest success stemming from a 2012 contract auction that was initially seen as lackluster.
Iraq's largest state oil company is expanding production capacity and building new infrastructure as it waits out an OPEC quota.
Despite an OPEC quota, output is rebounding at Basra fields and new capacity continues to come online.
Small-scale demonstrations at three oil installations raise the specter of last summer's destabilizing protest movement.
The federal government and KRG both increased their oil sales, combining for the second-highest monthly export average that Iraq has ever posted.
Khurmala Dome accounts for one-third of Iraqi Kurdistan's oil output; the federal North Oil Company, which controlled the field until 2008, is taking legal action to reclaim it.
After a period of detente following the formation of a new government, politicians are raising new complaints about federal budget payments to Kurdistan.
As populist MPs raise unsubstantiated corruption allegations around oil projects, decision makers are moving cautiously on major initiatives while they beat back political opportunists.
