As Iraq Oil Report reported last Thursday, the Oil Ministry is taking an end around to stop companies who signed controversial deals with the Kurdistan Regional Government from moving forward with the deals. Iraq warned South Korea it could suspend crude oil exports if a South Korean consortium led by a state-run company proceeds with [...]
- Accounting for Iraq’s oil … DNO production up, with nowhere to go … Cholera a threat in the north still … Oil, healthcare workers and teachers have outstanding demands …
- Pentagon report: Iraq Oil Ministry spending a little more on capital budgets, ranks production and electricity too … New deals by 2008 for Iraq’s oil sector … Turkey’s invasion unfolds …
- Iraq oil production still up, but can it hold? … Basra residents not fans of Brits … Electricity targeted again by attackers … Investigating Iraq’s U.S. Inspector General
- U.S. firms wanted for power projects … China getting started … Security self-sufficiency … The worst is over?
- Big Oil to sign Iraq deals soon … Battle for Basra, Iraq’s Oil … Insurgents strong in Mosul on smuggling …
Iraq northern oil allegedly travelling through Talabani-controlled KRG and into Iran
Plus: • South Korea weighs deals between Baghdad or Irbil • Iraq oil sales bring in nearly $5 billion in November Iraq oil produced by the Norwegian firm DNO, via a production sharing contract with the Kurdistan Regional Government, is allegedly being shipped on truck to Iran. The oil from the Tawke field, from one [...]
- Interview: Iraqi Kurdistan’s coordinator for U.N. missions … Iraqi oil capital Basra faces tough new year … Kurds make deal with Sunni Arabs … Pentagon to make example of journalist: treat like terrorist …
- Kurds threaten to break from coalition government in Baghdad … UNSC and IMF give another year in Iraq … The future of Basra …
- No deals yet in Baghdad oil meetings with Iraqi Kurds … Turkey invades Iraq … Kirkuk, a oil-rich hot spot, settled for six months … LGBTQ in Iraq … Dollars and Bullets …
- Baghdad vs. Irbil begins … Lukoil getting itchy for W. Qurna … The fate of Basra and Kirkuk …
- Barzani heads to Baghdad … Attacks on Iraq’s oil sector continue over weekend, Monday …
Iraq oil up end-’07, sketchy ‘08 … Update on South Korea backlash
Iraq's oil sector ends 2007 on a relatively upbeat note, with production at levels not seen since before the war. But the year had more downs than ups, and sustaining success through next year is far from guaranteed. Iraq averaged production of 2.4 million barrels per day in November, according to the global energy information [...]
Interview: Iraqi Kurdistan’s coordinator for U.N. missions … Iraqi oil capital Basra faces tough new year … Kurds make deal with Sunni Arabs … Pentagon to make example of journalist: treat like terrorist …
There is one Iraq, but there are also two: the northern, potentially oil-rich region controlled by Iraq's Kurds, and the rest of Iraq. That, says the Kurdish liaison to U.N. efforts in Iraqi Kurdistan, is how the international community should view it. "We say Iraq could not be treated as one simple state," said Dindar [...]
