The dispute between Baghdad and Iraq’s Kurds over the oil sector deepens, Steve Negus and Dino Mahtani report in the Financial Times. Security around Iraq’s northern pipeline has been sustained enough in recent months to boost oil exports to near 2 million barrels per day, reports Thompson Financial news. Baker Botts Cuts an Iraqi Oil [...]
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Leader of Iraq oil workers says Iraqis can increase production, with limited help from outsider if need be, but Baghdad refuses to spend the capital …
The leader of Iraq's oil workers, attending an anti-war conference here, says Iraq could be producing more oil by investing its own money, without an oil law or large scale foreign oil company involvement. "National expertise and resources are capable of enhancing production in the oil industry," Hassan Jumaa Awad, president of the umbrella Iraqi [...]
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Iraq's Oil Ministry is accusing the Kurdistan region of preventing development of one of Iraq's oldest, largest and most controversial oil fields, another dispute in the battle over control of the country's vast reserves.While the rift has been public, the issue of the Kirkuk oil field project is starting to surface in conflicting accounts. …"We [...]
