Iraq

For the fourth time in less than a year, Iraq's fourth licensing round has been delayed. Abdel Mehdi al-Ameedi, the head of the oil ministry's licensing directorate, told the AFP news... 2012-02-01

BMI View: Jordanian gas imports from Egypt have suffered collateral damage since the start of the Egyptian revolution. The loss of these supply volumes has seen the energy import bill... 2012-01-31

For the first time since Iraq awarded a string of contracts to foreign firms to help it re-develop its oil fields in 2009, militants have attacked a compound belonging to one of those... 2012-01-13

UK-listed independent Genel Energy, formed in 2011 by the 'reverse-takeover' of Turkish-based Iraqi Kurdistan explorer Genel Enerji by Vallares, has started 2012 on an optimistic note,... 2012-01-10

Security concerns have returned to the fore at oil installations in southern Iraq, following three bomb attacks on December 13 2011 on the pipeline network used to transport crude from... 2011-12-14

BMI View: A Japanese loan to Iraq's Basra and Baiji refineries will go a long way to modernise the country's struggling downstream sector. However, ultimately, if the government wants... 2011-11-25

As the dust settles after ExxonMobil's surprising entry into Iraqi Kurdistan's upstream segment, more information has come to light regarding the US major's newest acreage.