Iraq
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January 06, 2020
Oil buyers in Asia are increasingly wary that Iraq’s entanglement in the worsening dispute between the U.S. and Iran could disrupt shipments from one of their key Middle East suppliers.
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January 06, 2020
Futures jumped by another 1.4% on Monday as the U.S. State Department warned of a “heightened risk” of missile attacks near military bases and energy facilities in Saudi Arabia.
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January 03, 2020
“We should all be bracing for a ferocious response,” said Helima Croft, chief commodities strategist at RBC Capital Markets. “The stage is set for a retaliatory spiral that could keep markets on edge well into 2020.”
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January 03, 2020
Brent futures surged by more than 4% in busy trading on Friday to levels not seen since the attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities in September.
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January 03, 2020
S&P 500 Index futures contracts expiring in March retreated as much as 0.7% after the attack that killed Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian general who led the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds force.
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January 03, 2020
Qassem Soleimani, who led proxy militias that extended the Islamic Republic’s power across the Middle East, was killed in a strike in Baghdad authorized by Trump, the Defense Department said in a statement late Thursday night.
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January 03, 2020
The strike killed Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian general who led the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds force, according to two people familiar with the matter. U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Thursday that America was ready to deploy more force in Iraq after an attack on its embassy in Baghdad this week.
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December 02, 2019
Iraq said that OPEC and its allies will consider deeper production cuts, though the comments come after the coalition has widely signaled reluctance to take such action.
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October 09, 2019
Weatherford International has been awarded two fully integrated rig contracts and one well services (through-tubing intervention) contract with a multinational operator in one of the world's largest proven oil fields located in Iraq.
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July 19, 2019
A former oil executive pleaded guilty to five counts of corruption in the U.K. as part of one of the white-collar financial crime prosecutor’s biggest bribery investigations.
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June 06, 2019
President of LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov has met with Thamir Abbas Ghadhban Al Ghadhban, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil of the Republic of Iraq, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
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May 31, 2019
Marathon Oil Corporation has announced that it has closed on the sale of its 15% participating interest in the Atrush Block in Kurdistan.
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May 19, 2019
The evacuation of some ExxonMobil Corp. workers is “unacceptable and unwarranted” because it has nothing to do with the security situation in southern Iraq, according the country’s energy minister.
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May 16, 2019
Gazprom Neft subsidiary Gazprom Neft Middle East B.V. has produced its two-millionth ton of oil since starting commercial production at its Sarqala field in the Kurdsitan Region of Iraq.
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April 29, 2019
The Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, Mr. Thamir A. Al Ghadhban, and the CEO of Eni, Claudio Descalzi met in Baghdad.
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April 25, 2019
Petrofac has secured a number of new awards and contract extensions, with a combined value of over $30 million, to provide training solutions for key national oil company and international oil company clients in Oman, the UAE and Iraq.
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April 23, 2019
Cumulative production at the West Qurna-2 field has reached 100 MMt of oil as part of successful implementation of Phase 1 of the project.
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April 10, 2019
Iraq has quietly emerged as the world’s fourth-biggest oil producer and wants a bigger say in OPEC and the global energy game.
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April 07, 2019
Jordan and the World bank are in $1-billion loan discussions to cut the cost of the Middle East country's debt repayments and revive an economy strained by more than a million Syrian refugees.
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April 04, 2019
Gazprom Neft subsidiary Gazprom Neft Middle East B.V. has commissioned a third production well at its Sarqala field in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI).
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April 04, 2019
Gazprom Neft subsidiary Gazprom Neft Middle East B.V. has commissioned a third production well at its Sarqala field in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI).
