Energy

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Gas fuels Kurdistan's power politics

Iraq's Kurdish region is meeting nearly all its power needs by investing in natural gas fields – and, in a strategic calculation, it's willing to share.

  • Shell deal signing resized

    Shell gets its gas deal

    After years of negotiations, Shell inks a 25-year gas company joint venture with Iraq, making it the largest investor in the country's oil sector.

  • Iraqi South Oil Company engineers look toward the natural gas flares in the Zubair oil field in southern Iraq on January 21, 2010. (ESSAM AL-SUDANI/AFP/Getty Images)

    Basra leaders threaten lawsuit

    Days before Shell and Iraq are to formalize a new gas company, Basra's local government has voted to file a lawsuit challenging the deal.

  • Basra flares

    Cabinet approves Shell gas deal

    A final signing could come as early as next week, after Iraq's Cabinet approved Shell's deal to capture billions of dollars' worth of associated gas that is currently flared in Basra.