AFP - Iraqs central government has agreed with Kurdish authorities to resume oil exports from Kirkuk, the Oil Ministry said Friday, a year after federal forces seized the lucrative fields. Iraqi security units took the fields from Kurdish forces in October 2017, in retaliation for a controversial independence referendum in the Kurdish region. But ...

Reuters | John Davison,Dmitry Zhdannikov: Iraqs oilfields in the disputed Kirkuk region have taken on new significance after the United States restored oil sanctions against neighboring Iran. Washington is pressuring Baghdad to resume exports that stopped last year. Iraq aims to raise its export capacity to 8.5 million barrels per day (bpd) in the ...

SHANA Iran started swapping oil with Iraq's Kirkuk on Sunday, June 3, 2018, after the two neighbors sorted the logistic issues preventing the swap's startup. According to the CIF-based swap deal, Iran receives 30,000 to 60,000 bpd of oil from Kirkuk oil fields in northern Iraq to an Iranian refinery across the border via tanker trucks, in exchange ...

Press TV - A senior Iraqi official says his country could start in one to two weeks sending crude by truck from Kirkuk to Irans Kermanshah refinery. The swap deal was agreed at the end of 2017, under which Iraq is about to truck 60,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil to Iran. Iran will export from its Kharg terminal on the Persian Gulf ...

Reuters - A plan to truck oil from Iraqs northern Kirkuk fields to Iran cannot be fully implemented at this stage due to security concerns, the head of the Iran-Iraq chamber of commerce said on Monday. Iraq and Iran have agreed to swap up to 60,000 barrels per day of crude produced from Kirkuk for Iranian oil to be delivered to southern Iraq. About ...

Reuters - Iraqi forces launched a security operation along a planned oil transit route to Iran on Wednesday, saying it was clearing and destroying sleeper cells in the mountainous border area where two armed groups operate. Iraqi oil officials announced in December plans to transport Kirkuk crude by truck to Irans Kermanshah refinery. The trucking ...

Reuters- Iraqi forces are preparing an operation to consolidate control of an area near the Iran border to be used for the transit of Iraqi oil, two officials said on Monday, highlighting concern about mountainous terrain where two armed groups are active. The operation to secure the Hamrin mountain range could start this week, they told Reuters....

Tasnim Iraqi Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi said on Sunday that a deal signed with Tehran to swap up to 60,000 barrels per day of crude produced from the northern Iraqi Kirkuk oilfield for Iranian oil is for one year. This is an agreement for one year and then we will see after that whether to renew it, Luaibi told reporters in Kuwait City on ...

Reuters - Iraq has agreed to swap up to 60,000 barrels per day of crude produced from the northern Iraqi Kirkuk oilfield for Iranian oil, Iraqi Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi said on Saturday. The agreement signed by the two countries provides for Iran to deliver to Iraqs southern ports, on the Gulf, oil of the same characteristics and in the same ...

Press TV - Iran says it expects to sign an agreement with Iraq within the next few days based on which it would swap the countrys oil produced in its Kirkuk province with equal amounts in the Persian Gulf. The announcement was made by Irans Petroleum Minister Bijan Zangeneh who said the agreement would be a strategic one. Zangeneh was quoted ...

Press TV- Authorities in the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan have opposed exporting oil from the northern fields of Kirkuk via Iran, marking their first escalation of a spat which has started with secessionist calls. The grandstanding came after Iraqi Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi traveled to Tehran on Sunday to push ahead with a pipeline project ...

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