Ex-MP vows to continue challenge but raising hundreds of thousands of dollars, attorney fees and alleged threats have taken toll.
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Massive compound that once held 24,000 people could serve as logistics hub for companies when southern oil development takes off.
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A new 5-year plan for economic and social development in Iraq offers little details, but relies on oil exports to double and fund projects that will only succeed if security improves.
Details of third bidding round to be unveiled Thursday
Three gas fields to be offered to foreign investors in Iraq’s third auction of hydrocarbons assets since June 2009.
- Investors face more risks than mere violence
- Chinese, Iraqi officials make plans for oil airport
- Iraq deals could be boost to oil firms’ books
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- Russia looking forward to Iraqi oil development
Production-sharing contracts: a dying breed?
EDITOR’S NOTE: The issue of production-sharing contracts (PSCs, also called production-sharing agreements, or PSAs) in Iraq is a contentious one. Encouraged initially by American advisers as the best means for investment in post-war Iraq by, the system, which allows oil companies to take a share of the profits of all oil extracted, can mean that if oil prices rise, oil companies make huge profits without increasing their investment. Iraq Oil Report guest contributor and former U.S. energy offici…
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