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China lands Iraqi oil contract – but U.S. still gets its crude

Iraq will sign a $1.2 billion oil service contract with China to replace a production-sharing deal agreed under Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi newspaper, an-Noor said, quoting oil minister Hussain al-Shahristani. The oil minister is travelling to China at the end of this month to discuss the deal, which was orginally signed in 1997 between Iraq [...]

By Ben Lando of Iraq Oil Report
Published August 19, 2008

Iraq will sign a $1.2 billion oil service contract with China to replace a production-sharing deal agreed under Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi newspaper, an-Noor said, quoting oil minister Hussain al-Shahristani.

The oil minister is travelling to China at the end of this month to discuss the deal, which was orginally signed in 1997 between Iraq and the China National Petrolium Co...

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