Dec. 22 hearing the first legal challenge to oil contracts concluded this year with foreign oil companies, including seven awarded Friday and Saturday.
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Q&A: Finance Minister Ali Allawi
Allawi discusses ending Kurdistan budget transfers, new expenditures under a stop-gap spending law, power payments to Iran, and implementing a Chinese financing deal.
Details emerge from the court battle for Rumaila
Iraq Oil Report sheds light on the federal court challenge to BP's contract for Rumaila with the documents filed by the Oil Ministry and MP Musawi in recent hearings.
Analysis: Oil law scuffle tests Parliament’s power
A constitutional conflict between Iraq’s legislative and executive branches appears to be brewing, and oil legislation is at the center of the storm.
Baghdad may ramp up legal challenge to Kurdish crude exports
Prime Minister Abadi orders lawyers to block any attempt by the autonomous Kurdistan region to ship oil to the United States following reports that a tanker bearing KRG crude is en route.
Analysis: What was Exxon thinking?
Exxon risked its stake in a super-giant Iraqi field and cast its lot with Kurdistan. The gamble might not be as risky as it seems.
Wasit leaders defy Oil Ministry in armed standoff at Ahdab
A battle for control of the province’s oil development combusted, as local and federal security forces faced off.
IOCs double down on Kurdistan despite legal threats
Foreign companies are putting more money into Kurdistan oil fields — and projecting increased production — despite Baghdad's legal campaign against the KRG oil sector.
Basra Governor faces legal challenge, demands oil contracting rights
Basra's new Governor, back from heart surgery in Kuwait, is adamant that he approves all new oil deals.
Janabi presses oil sector overhaul
Parliament's top oil policymaker outlined his vision for the oil sector, advocating for legislation that would check the Cabinet's power.
Oil law walkout
The oil law is postponed again, awaiting political deal after Maliki MPs walked out during first reading, saying they needed more time.
Hearing postpones challenge to Rumaila deal
Lawsuit challenging fundamentals of international oil deals is accepted by judge, and a hearing scheduled for next month.
First Rumaila hurdle cleared, many remain
BP and CNPC reach a deal with the Oil Ministry but MPs call the deal “illegal” as the Cabinet readies to weigh in.
BP lawsuit future uncertain
Ex-MP vows to continue challenge but raising hundreds of thousands of dollars, attorney fees and alleged threats have taken toll.