Baghdad re-asserts itself
Shahristani touts record production in outreach to IOCs – including better contract terms – and warnings to KRG, Turkey.
Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs Hussain al-Shahristani (L) speaks during a joint news conference with Iraqi Oil Minister Abdul-Kareem Luaibi in Baghdad, April 2, 2012. (SAAD SHALASH/Reuters)
BAGHDAD - Iraq's central government appears to have found its voice in an ongoing dispute with foreign oil companies, the Kurdistan region, and Turkey.
Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani, a key oil policymaker since 2006 when he was oil minister, in an Iftar (Ramadan break fast) gathering with journalists Sunday night, promoted Iraq's record-breaking year thus far in oil production, and reiterated Baghdad-supremacy over oil.
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