ReutersIslamic State loses control of last oil wells in Iraq: oil ministryReutersThe reality is that it is extremely difficult to extract and smuggle oil while our forces are advancing towards Mosul...," oil ministry spokesman Asim Jihad said. Islamic …

ReutersOil fires cast black cloud over Iraqi town retaken from Islamic StateReutersWhen Iraq's military torched hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells in 1991 ahead of advancing U.S.-led forces, most fires burned for around two months but some wells were not ca …

ReutersIraq's Qayyara oil fields won't return to production before Mosul retaken:...ReutersBAGHDAD Iraq doesn't expect to resume production from the northern Qayyara oil region before the capture of nearby Mosul from Islamic State, an oil minis …

ReutersIraq army captures Qayyara oil region from IS, Abadi saysReutersBAGHDAD The Iraqi army has dislodged Islamic State from the Qayyara oil producing region located south of their de facto capital Mosul, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Thursday. …

The IndependentOil price and Isis ruin the Kurds' dream of richesThe IndependentThe ambition was an act of hubris, which assumed that the price of oil would remain high and that KRG could become an oil state acting independently from Baghdad. I was in …

Wall Street JournalRussian Oil: Output Grows as Prospects ShrinkWall Street JournalWhile recent increases in Russian oil output have helped cushion the sharp price fall, Mr. Putin is so squeezed for cash, his government postponed a planned reduction in oil …