{"id":275139,"date":"2026-09-02T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/275139\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T15:40:08","slug":"iraq-evaluates-exploration-blocks-to-optimize-gas-output","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/275139\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq evaluates exploration blocks to optimize gas output"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) \u2013 The Iraqi Ministry of Oil is actively assessing its exploration blocks and foreign alliances to maximize domestic gas output.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Director of the state-owned Midland Oil Company (MOC), Mohammed Yassin Hassan, told the Iraqi News Agency (INA) that the ministry is focusing on unexploited exploration areas rather than existing resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The strategic measure seeks to attract multinational corporations to invest in Iraq\u2019s growing natural gas sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead of altering production at current sites, the Oil Ministry is focusing on new exploration regions to identify new deposits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to the strong interest in Iraq\u2019s untapped energy potential, multinational energy businesses have already begun contacting the ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iraq\u2019s MOC is actively pursuing partnerships with major US firms, such as ConocoPhillips, to lead gas development projects in important areas in the provinces of Diyala and Anbar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Expanding operations in blocks such as the Akkas and Mansuriya gas fields is critical to Iraq\u2019s long-term strategy for achieving energy independence and providing the necessary fuel for power plants to generate electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) \u2013 The Iraqi Ministry of Oil is actively assessing its exploration blocks and foreign alliances to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[15369,75117,131,18493,2032,154,897,94,75118,1419,14208],"class_list":["post-275139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-anbar","tag-akkas","tag-conocophillips","tag-diyala","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-gas","tag-iraq","tag-mansuriya-gas-field","tag-natural-gas","tag-power-plants"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117202205006173169","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}