🔴Association of the Petroleum Industry of Kurdistan statement on progress to restore oil exports: APIKUR member companies welcome the Iraqi Parliament’s proposal to amend Article 12 of the Budget Law and believe that there could be sufficient scope in the current wording to

1- The preliminary results of Iraq's nationwide population census show a total population of 45,407,895 people. Of this, 50.18% are male and 49.82% are female. Age-wise, 36.1% of the population is under 15 years old, 60.2% is between 15 and 64 years, and 3.7% is over 65 years old

2. The census also reveals that 70.3% of Iraq's population lives in urban areas, while 29.7% reside in rural areas. The average family size is 5.3 members, with 88.67% of households being headed by males and 11.33% by females. The population growth rate stands at 2.3%.

3. The preliminary census results for the Kurdistan Region (excluding disputed areas) show a population of 6,370,668 people. Of this, 50.4% are male & 49.6% are female. 84% living in urban & 16% in rural areas, with 2.028m housing units; 4.4% of the population is over 65yers old

#Genel_Energy announced that its subsidiary, Genel Energy Miran Bina Bawi Limited (#GEMBBL) has lost an arbitration case to the Kurdistan Regional Government #KRG, which validly terminated its #Bina_Bawi & #Miran contracts. Genel's counterclaim for damages was dismissed.

#KRG says it will "defend its constitutional rights in all available forums" in an indirect response to unilateral deals by the #Iraqi Oil Ministry with #BP to develop major oil fields in the oil-rich, disputed province of #Kirkuk. gov.krd/english/news-a…

#Erbil & #Baghdad announce agreement to restart crude oil exports from the #Kurdistan_Region to #Turkey and formed a technical committee to inspects the pipelines, following a halt in the region's oil exports for nearly two years. insightiraq.com/articles/baghd…

#APIKUR says its "member companies do not have agreements that would lead to resuming oil exports today", following comments by Iraqi Oil Minister saying that crude oil exports from the #Kurdistan_Region will resume in the next hours to the #Turkish port of #Ceyhan.

The #Iraqi Council of Ministers has scheduled the next parliamentary elections for November 11, 2025. #Iraq #Baghdad #Basra #Kirkuk #Mosul #KRG #KRI

#APIKUR calls for redoubling of efforts to reach the agreements required to resume oil exports via ITP apikur.uk/publications/a…

The Association of the Petroleum Industry of Kurdistan strongly condemns attacks on oil production sites operated by APIKUR member companies in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region on July 15 and July 16, 2025. These attacks threatened the lives and safety of our predominantly Iraqi

Kurdistan24 says that #Erbil and #Baghdad have just signed a "new oil export mechanism agreement" where the KRG keeps 50k bpd for local use & the rest goes to #SOMO for export, pending final talks with #Turkey. If sustained, this is a major breakthrough to resume #KRG oil exports

#KRG's Ministry of Natural Resources #MNR has just confirmed the new deal. facebook.com/MNRKurdistan/p…

Officials from #Iraq's North Oil Company (#NOC), representing Iraq's Oil Ministry, the #Kurdistan Region’s Ministry of Natural Resources (#MNR), and international oil companies #IOCs reportedly signed an agreement today in Erbil to restart oil exports from the region via Turkey.

"Eight international oil companies operating in #Iraqi #Kurdistan reached agreements in principle with Iraq's federal and Kurdish regional governments to resume oil exports," an IOC statement seen by #Reuters said. #DNO & #Genel yet to join the 3-way deal. reuters.com/business/energ…

Today we reached a historic agreement under which the Federal Ministry of Oil will receive crude oil produced from the fields in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and export it through the Iraq–Türkiye pipeline. This ensures fair distribution of wealth, diversification of export

#KRG's #MNR announced that within the next 48 hours, the export of oil from the Kurdistan Region will resume following a trilateral agreement between the Federal Ministry of Oil, the Ministry of Natural Resources & oil-producing companies in the region. facebook.com/share/p/1BM7QS…

Gulf Keystone says that "SOMO will transport the crude from Fishkhabour in Kurdistan to Ceyhan in Türkiye". This means that SOMO will receive the crude at the Turkey border without directly using the Russian Rosneft-controlled KRG pipeline, likely to avoid direct payments to it??

Oil exports from the #Kurdistan Region have resumed via the #Iraqi state marketer, #SOMO to the #Turkish port of #Ceyhan after a halt for 30 months. facebook.com/share/v/19evZe…