Published
November 20, 2008,
5:17 pm in
Politics
Plus:
*Shell and Turkey sign Iraq gas co-op pact
*Update on SOFA
*Oil capital Basra wants autonomy from Baghdad
*Iraq Press Roundup
Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has blasted the Kurdistan Regional Government for what he calls “constitutional violations.” In a press conference he listed them – including developing foreign relations and utilizing Peshmerga forces against national Iraqi Security Forces.
But the most telling of all is that Maliki, long in the oil debate shadows and…
Published
November 19, 2008,
6:36 pm in
Politics
Plus:
*SOFA negotiations rocky but developing
*Iraq Oil Report offers first look at text submitted to Parliament
*Kurdistan-Baghdad relations rocky
*KRG signs U.N. electricity help
*Iraq Oil Ministry wants helicopters
*Alive in Baghdad: Sahwa, What Next After Al-Qaeda?
*Iraq Press Roundup
The Status Of Forces Agreement, or SOFA, is nearing a late-November deadline when Iraq’s Parliament is to recess, and the end-December deadline when the current U.N. mandate is to expire.
Iraq O…
Published
October 31, 2008,
5:00 pm in
Business
Plus:
*Oil Minister Shahristani joins PM Maliki’s coalition list
*The Green Zone Sit-in
*VIDEO: Two-part series on the Surge & Sadr
*Operation Hotel California: entering Iraq in 2002
*Iraqi women face increasing threats
*All Iraqis in danger with bad water
It’s an exhausting and complicated process, but Iraq is taking steps to open up its oil and revenue interactions to the world’s watchdogs, Ben Lando reports for United Press International.
“The commitment from the government is s…
Published
October 28, 2008,
4:39 pm in
Politics
Plus:
*Iraqi Kurd-central government tension escalates
*Iraq limits oil companies to one lead role in oil deals
*Former SCOP Chief Khawaja’s recommendations
*U.S. threatens Iraq aid and other SOFA developments
*Basra worker protest
*Iraq Press Roundup
*Much more
Oil for Soil: the International Crisis Group is proposing what its calling a “grand bargain” to head of escalation of conflicts between Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government and the central government in Baghdad.
The full…
Published
October 21, 2008,
5:14 pm in
Oil
Plus:
*Japan, Turkey team up for Iraq oil and gas bid
*CNPC starts Ahdab work
*Oil price drop sparks budget changes
*Oil smugglers arrested
*new video–Alive in Baghdad: Two Families Survive Iraq’s Militias
*Basra port privatization begins
*The Iraq Press Roundup
*And much more
A lawmaker from the parliament’s commission of power on Tuesday said he would collect signatures from MPs to accelerate presenting oil and gas law in the Council of Representatives, Voices of Iraq reports.
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Published
October 9, 2008,
4:47 pm in
Oil
Plus:
*More details ahead of the roadshow
*Kurdish national MP says oil law moving
*KRG minister says natural gas to provide power for Kurds, industry and all of Iraq
*Barzani heads to Baghdad for talks soon
*Oil Search starts drilling
*Shahristani talks pipeline plans
*U.S. report warns of upcoming ethnic violence
*Turkey readies for incursion
*Sadrist MP killed
*The Iraq Press Roundup and more
A delegation led by Iraq’s oil minister Hussain al-Shahristani will present prequalified…
Published
October 7, 2008,
1:14 pm in
Security
Plus:
*Lukoil blames Shahristani for West Qurna deal
*March deadline for first bids on oil and gas fields
*December date for announcing second round
*Oil and Electricity ministries combine forces on Mussaib topping plant
* Alive in Baghdad: Baghdad Security Plan Burdens Residents
* Turkey and the PKK, SOFA and more
Recurrent violence in oil-rich parts of Nigeria may provide a sobering lesson for oil companies hoping to work in Iraq – a place that is much more dangerous despite the fact …
Published
October 3, 2008,
5:28 pm in
Oil
Plus:
*Premier out of bidding for various, unconfirmed reasons
*Talabani, Aso discuss oil ties
*Sterling dishes KRG oil stakes to Korea, Addax
*Electricity minister explains set backs, signs deals with GM and Siemens
*Much, much more
Iraq’s Oil Ministry Oct. 13 will not only take a major step forward to bringing foreign oil companies into Iraq’s nationalized oil sector. Beyond beginning a bidding process for a handful of key oil and gas fields, the ministry will outline a second grou…
Published
September 26, 2008,
5:36 pm in
Oil
Plus:
*Petrel also says Oil Ministry agrees to payment, ditches Kurdish partner
*Confirmation and details of KRG-South Korea oil investment
*Fields in second oil and gas bidding round discussed
*Kanaqin residents say fight is over oil, future in Iraq
*Alive in Baghdad: Sadr City vs. the Walls
*Food rations to be cut
*Election rules ban some religious images
Iraqi oil and gas deals aren’t just for Big Oil as smaller firms already active in the country are better placed, the head of Petr…
Published
September 24, 2008,
6:33 pm in
Oil
Plus:
*Progress on another joint venture, this time for oil drilling
*What the passage of an election law means
*Iraq Press Roundup
An Iraqi oil ministry spokesman says Iraq and China will finalize a US$3 billion oil agreement next week. Assem Jihad says a Chinese delegation will visit Baghdad to sign the deal, The Associated Press reports.
The contract to develop the Ahdab field in southern Iraq is one of four Saddam-era contracts that the Oil Ministry has said it will uphold but reneg…