True, as the map above shows, ISIS isn’t close to any of the massive oil fields in the southern regions of Iraq, which produce 75 percent of the country’s oil. And ISIS has yet to enter the ...

Flames emerge from flare stacks at the oil fields in Dibis area on the outskirts of Kirkuk, Iraq October 17, 2017 [Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters] But when it comes to oil, it is clear that the conflict ...

When Ashti Hawrami, the oil minister from Iraq’s largely autonomous Kurdistan region, unfurled a map of untapped oil fields for a team of ExxonMobil officials in the spring of 2011, they saw ...

In March, the task force reviewed lists and maps outlining Iraq’s entire oil productive ... and Russia Lukoil’s super-giant West Qurna oil field, demanding jobs and payment for private land ...

China’s CNOOC has inked a deal for exploration at an oil field in central Iraq, the company said today. The deposit, Block 7, will be managed by a fully owned subsidiary of the Chinese company ...

The agreement between BP and ... include oil and gas production of more than three billion barrels of oil equivalent. It includes the Baba and Avanah domes of the Kirkuk oil field and three ...

BAGHDAD, May 11 (Reuters) - Chinese companies won bids to explore five Iraqi oil and gas fields on Saturday in a licensing round for hydrocarbon exploration that was primarily aimed at ramping up ...

Iraq has completed 2D and 3D seismic surveys at the Naft Khana oil field in the Northeastern Diyala governorate, paving the way for exploratory drilling under the fifth licensing round, a senior Iraq ...

BP plc (BP) announced an agreement with the Iraq government to redevelop the Kirkuk oil and gas fields in northern Iraq, per a Reuters report. The deal, finalized on Dec. 19, outlines technical ...

A deal overseen by Tillerson, whose confirmation hearings to become secretary of state begins Wednesday, defied US foreign policy.