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Joey Hood, principal deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, and others discussed Iraq’s political outlook at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC. They also weighed in on the current relations between the U.S. and Iraq under the Trump administration.

'RFL UAE' allows users to connect their personal wellness journey to FOCP's objective to raise funds that will aid the treatment of cancer patients

UAE - Crescent Petroleum, the first and largest private oil and gas company in the Middle East, has partnered with Edraak, Arab World's leading platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs), to develop a series of open and free online career readiness courses to bridge the gap between the skills acquired during school or university [...]

This year, the newly rebranded Middle East Energy Awards saw a record number of nominations. Those nominees were whittled down to shortlists representing some of the best achievements from the energy sector in the past year. Our esteemed panel of judges had the difficult task of selecting the winner and highly commended of each category, [...]

Majid Jafar discusses the political spectrum in the GCC countries.

For the past hundred years, Middle East energy has been synonymous with oil. But walk through the plenaries and halls of energy forums in the region these days, and the word you will hear most often is gas.

A senior oil executive has predicted that Iraq could surpass Saudi Arabia as an oil producer. Addressing delegates at CWC‘s Iraq Petroleum conference in London, Majid Jafar (pictured), CEO of Sharjah-based Crescent Petroleum, said: "Iraq is hugely underexplored. We at Crescent know of 300 structures just in the Western Desert that have yet to be drilled, so I for one believe that Iraq has a lot of potential, and I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes the largest producer in OPEC during my career."