Federal forces in Iraq have taken a refinery and the headquarters of the North Oil Company from the Kurdish military, an Iraqi official told Reuters. The facilities are in the disputed province of Kirkuk. On Monday, I...
The Provincial Government of Kirkuk will not cooperate with the central government’s plans to export oil from the Kirkuk oil fields to Iran, according to provincial officials, reports Bloomberg. Iraq’s Oil Minister, J...
Iraq’s current exports from the Kirkuk oil field through a pipeline to Turkey have dropped to 100,000b/d, compared with 133,000b/d in October. An official at state-run North Oil Company attributed the decrease t...
Kirkuk, the city in the Iraqi Kurdistan region, has received new payments for exported oil from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) bringing up the total amount paid to Kirkuk to $50 million since December 2015, R...
Islamic State (ISIS) militants launched an assault on two energy facilities in Northern Iraq, which resulted in at least five casualties and caused operations in a major oil pumping station to halt, according to Reute...
Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani confirmed on Wednesday that talks were taking place between BP and Baghdad over the northern Kirkuk oilfield. The UK major is looking closely at a p...
An explosion on one of the two pipelines bringing crude from Kirkuk in Iraq to the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean led to a large fire on Thursday, shutting oil flows on that pipe, a Turkish energy officia...