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Insurgency persists as U.S.-led coalition leaves Iraq (opens the original)
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KIRKUK - Iraq is continuing to battle a persistent insurgency waged by remnants of the Islamic State (IS) militant group, even as Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi marked "the complete and final withdrawal" of the U.S.-led counter-IS coalition on Sept. 30 and declared "victory over one of the darkest pages of extremism and brutality in history." Dozens of incident reports from Iraqi security officials gathered by Iraq Oil Report over the past month suggest insurgent cells are still active across a swa
Iraqi production surges on partial export recovery (opens the original)
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Iraq's nationwide oil production surged to nearly 3.5 million barrels per day (bpd) in August, an increase of almost 700,000 bpd from July, as a recovery in southern export volumes helped unlock stranded upstream capacity. Production at fields managed by the federal government averaged about 3.27 million bpd in August, up from 2.64 million bpd in July, according to an Iraq Oil Report analysis based on data gathered independently from producing fields. Most of that increase came from fields in Ba
South-to-north export trucking begins (opens the original)
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BASRA - Iraq has started trucking Basra crude to its northern export pipeline system in an operation that is likely to increase oil sales via Turkey's Ceyhan port within weeks. Loading started at the Zubair-1 depot at 9 a.m. on Sept. 13, and 209 tankers trucks had been filled by Sept. 14, according to a statement from Bassim Abdul Karim, director general of the state-run Basra Oil Company (BOC). A separate BOC official also said that more than 200 trucks had loaded by midday Monday. Annual News
Q&A: Ali Shaddad al-Faris, member of the Parliament Oil and Gas Committee (opens the original)
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BASRA - Ali Shaddad al-Faris is a member of Parliament from Basra who has long served on the Oil and Gas Committee. In an interview with Iraq Oil Report, he discussed the committee's goals for a new Parliament term, including the future of a national oil and gas law, a potential revision of the refineries investment law, and oversight of an oil sector rocked by recent corruption scandals. Annual News subscribers receive access to the full archive of Iraq Oil Report articles.
Pricing discounts drive August oil export surge (opens the original)
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BASRA - Iraqi oil exports jumped by 50 percent from July to August as the government's oil marketing company, SOMO, offered unusually deep pricing discounts to entice buyers and offset shipping risks stemming from the U.S.-Iran war. August exports averaged 2.377 million barrels per day (bpd), according to SOMO data seen by Iraq Oil Report, up from 1.586 million bpd in July. Annual News subscribers receive access to the full archive of Iraq Oil Report articles.
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