Ben Van Heuvelen
Editor-in-Chief at Iraq Oil Report
Editor-in-Chief of @iraqoilreport. he/him. Personal account, views my own.
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2 weeks ago |
iraqoilreport.com | Ben Van Heuvelen
Oil Minister Hayyan Abdulghani (second from right), BOC Director General Bassim Abdul Karim (far right) and representatives of Geo-Jade and Hilal al-Basra attend a signing ceremony for the South Basra Integrated Project on May 21, 2025.
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2 weeks ago |
iraqoilreport.com | Ben Van Heuvelen
Farhan al-Fartousi, director general of the General Company for Ports of Iraq, at the company's headquarters at Al-Maqal port in May 2025. (ALI AL-AQILY/Iraq Oil Report) AL-MAQAL PORT, BASRA - Among the many important roles it plays in Iraq’s energy sector, the General Company for Ports of Iraq (GCPI) is at the center of a fast-track project to import liquefied natural gas by ship in time for the summer season of high electricity demand.
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2 weeks ago |
iraqoilreport.com | Ben Van Heuvelen
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani (right) and KRG Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (left) speak at a ceremony for the signing of a framework deal to restart Iraq's northern exports in Baghdad on April 4, 2023.
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3 weeks ago |
iraqoilreport.com | Ben Van Heuvelen
Workers with the state-run Iraqi Drilling Company operate a drilling rig at the East Baghdad field in April 2025. (Photo credit: Oil Ministry) Iraq's oil production fell by about 90,000 barrels per day (bpd) in April as the Oil Ministry cut production from state-operated fields in Basra.
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4 weeks ago |
iraqoilreport.com | Ben Van Heuvelen
Hassan Mohammed Hassan, director general of the Iraqi Drilling Company. (Photo credit: IDC) After decades working his way up through the state-run Basra Oil Company and its predecessor, the South Oil Company, Hassan Mohammed Hassan has become the acting director general of the Oil Ministry’s Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC).
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Previously unreported details of the landmark Iraq-Turkey arbitration ruling have big implications for the future of Baghdad-Erbil power dynamics and the trajectory of the KRG oil sector. https://t.co/XcYjNJLd3I
If Turkey refuses to restart exports upon the Iraqi Oil Ministry's instructions, it would very likely constitute a further breach of the ITP treaty. https://t.co/fCpttlSyIW
#Turkey Wants to Negotiate Payments to #Iraq Before Oil Exports Resume A pipeline from Kurdistan has been shut since a tribunal order Talks may delay the restart of 400,000 b/d of exports #oott https://t.co/9gi2c7qP2X
RT @lcmporter: Our @iraqoilreport latest, on the beginning of production at the long-delayed Karbala refinery. it's still not producing the…