PARIS, March 30 (UPI) -- Oil export contracts with the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq are in direct violation of the Iraqi Constitution, the oil minister said.

TEHRAN, Iraq, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Iraq said it would open a new round of licensing bids for companies to develop untapped oil fields that could produce up to 2.5 million barrels per day.

BAGHDAD, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Iraqi Oil Ministry officials said Thursday an agreement to allow Kurds to export oil was rescinded due to disagreements over royalties and future contracts.

Iraqi oil and gas field bidding starts Monday; gas in Iraqi Kurdistan comes online; rumors of oil law deal as Barzani heads to Baghdad.

Iraq opened international bidding for eight oil and gas fields; India will sign an agreement with Cuba; India also talks with Iran and Colombia on cooperation.

The Iraqi central and Kurdish regional governments are ready to export; Iraq plans to finalize technical oil contracts by the end of June; Iraq in talks to unify oil fields with Kuwait and Iran; Iraqi crude could ease global economic woes, Indian minister says; Iraq renews 2006 oil deal with Jordan.

FAYSH KHABUR, Iraq, June 13 (UPI) -- The pipeline that could pump northern Iraqi oil for export is nearly complete but empty, ending for now in the soil near the borders with Syria and Turkey, on the side of a dirt road.

ERBIL, Iraq, May 30 (UPI) -- The Iraqi government has moved, demoted or fired more than a dozen people within the southern Iraqi oil sector this month as domestic and international union officials decry their treatment.

ERBIL, Iraq, May 30 (UPI) -- The Iraqi central and Kurdistan regional governments will resume negotiations over the oil law and key issues in early June.