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 days 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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1 week 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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1 week ago |
iraqoilreport.com | Ben Van Heuvelen
Tankers dock at the al-Basra Oil Terminal. (BEN LANDO/Iraq Oil Report) Iraq's oil exports averaged 3.360 million barrels per day (bpd) in April, according to preliminary Oil Ministry data — an apparent decrease compared to March. Revenues also fell due to weakening oil prices. April’s oil sales brought in about $6.66 billion, according to an Iraq Oil Report estimate based on the Oil Ministry’s published pricing formulas and global benchmark prices.
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2 weeks ago |
iraqoilreport.com | Ben Van Heuvelen
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani (standing, center), BP CEO Murray Auchincloss (standing, left), and Oil Minister Hayyan Abdulghan (standing, right) oversee the signing of a deal for BP to rehabilitate Kirkuk oil fields and build gas processing and power generation infrastructure at a ceremony in Baghdad on March 26, 2025.
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2 weeks ago |
iraqoilreport.com | Ben Van Heuvelen
Workers from the state-run Iraqi Drilling Company work on a drilling rig at the East Baghdad oil field in April 2025. (Photo credit: Oil Ministry) Iraq’s oil production increased significantly in March as the country’s most prolific field rebounded from a string of mishaps that had hampered output.
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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…