{"id":38811,"date":"2025-11-17T18:31:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/iraq-discusses-temporary-lifting-of-us-sanctions-against-lukoil-reuters\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T18:31:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:31:46","slug":"iraq-discusses-temporary-lifting-of-us-sanctions-against-lukoil-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/iraq-discusses-temporary-lifting-of-us-sanctions-against-lukoil-reuters\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq discusses temporary lifting of US sanctions against Lukoil \u2013 Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Iraqi government plans to appeal to the US Treasury Department for a six-month waiver of sanctions against Lukoil. This would provide more time to sell the company's stake in the West Qurna-2 oil field.<\/p>\n

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The Iraqi government is considering asking the US Treasury Department for a six-month waiver of sanctions against Lukoil to give it more time to sell its stake in the West Qurna-2 oil field, three Iraqi energy officials told Reuters, UNN reports.<\/p>\n

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Lukoil's field is a big chunk to chew on<\/p>\n

\u2013 one of the officials noted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Iraq's Ministry of Oil has ruled out the possibility of the state buying Lukoil's stake, saying the project is too large for Iraqi state-owned companies.<\/p>\n

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According to officials, Iraq is aware of at least three potential buyers \u2013 one Chinese and two Western companies \u2013 but their names have not been disclosed. Lukoil did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.<\/p>\n

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani met with former Lukoil CEO Vagit Alekperov, the prime minister's office said.<\/p>\n

Britain suspends sanctions against Lukoil for the sake of refinery operations in Bulgaria15.11.25, 04:28 \u2022 4209 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Iraqi government plans to appeal to the US Treasury Department for a six-month waiver of sanctions against Lukoil. This would provide more time to sell the company's stake in the West Qurna-2 oil field. The Iraqi government is considering asking the US Treasury Department for a six-month waiver of sanctions against Lukoil to give […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}