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Dana and Crescent start gas production in northern Iraq

Plus: *Egypt sends Oil Minister for cooperation talks *Missan province oil products depot is underway *Turkey restarts northern Iraq bombings after PKK attack *Iraq's brightest stars can't shine in their homeland *Hakim starts campaigning *Iraq Press Roundup Iraq’s Kurdistan region is producing gas from projects signed with partners Dana Gas and Crescent. Gas is being […]

Petrel Resources’ high hopes for PSA from Saddam-era Iraq oil deal…

Plus: *Dana Gas ready to feed northern Iraq gas to Kurdish power plants *Price of Baghdad black market fuel drops *Iran-Iraq energy dealings during Ahmadinejad’s visit *Spring is coming, but air conditioning is not *Iraq Press Roundup *Inside Iraqi Politics Ireland's Petrel Resources expects a production-sharing agreement for a deal it signed with Saddam Hussein […]

Chomsky speaks on Iraqi oil

The deal just taking shape between Iraq's Oil Ministry and four Western oil companies raises critical questions about the nature of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq — questions that should certainly be addressed by presidential candidates and seriously discussed in the United States, and of course in occupied Iraq, where it appears that […]

BP, Exxon propose two-year deals to produce 200,000 barrels more Iraq oil per day…

Plus: *President Talabani meets with Lukoil executives *OMV to start drilling two wells next year in KRG block *Tigris, Euphrates levels affecting gas liquification *Crescent Petroleum’s Majid Jafar Q&A *Much, much more... After several months of negotiations and pressure from the Iraqi government, BP and Exxon Mobil Corp. have finally submitted proposals to the Iraqi […]

Neocon, Perle exploring Iraqi oil business

Influential former Pentagon official Richard Perle has been exploring going into the oil business in Iraq and Kazakhstan, write Susan Schmidt and Glenn R. Simpson for The Wall Street Journal. Perle, one of a group of security experts who began pushing the case for toppling Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein about a decade ago, has been […]

KRG crude now exported independently to Turkey

Oil sales demonstrate Kurdish readiness to defy Baghdad and ignore American pressure in a bid to increase ties with Turkey and pay oil companies.