Plus: *More on the Shell gas deal *German, UAE and Iran investors eye southern refineries *Alive in Baghdad: Selling Fuel *Kidnapping in the NOC Iraq won't award temporary oilfield services contracts to international companies before a bidding round aimed at bringing in foreign expertise to boost crude production, Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani said, Bloomberg News [...]
- Iraqi and international oil firms’ talks on first post-war deals are moving along …
- Iraq’s Oil Ministry is getting ever closer to the first post-Iraq war oil deals…
- Iraq income up five years after war as oil production slowly increases, fetching more with high oil prices…
- Turkey to study pipeline for Iraq gas to run same route as Iraq oil pipelines…
- Iraq intent on boosting oil production by 17 percent; security and investment still uncertain …
Iraqi oil … on both sides of the pond
Here's a thought experiment from The Wall Street Journal: Assume that Iraq's democratic government declared it was nationalizing its oil industry, a la Venezuela or Saudi Arabia, while excluding American companies from the country. How do you think U.S. politicians would react? With angry cries of "ingratitude" and "this is what Americans died for"? Of [...]
Basra amidst violence may see major push by previously ineffective Iraqi troops…
Plus: *Doubts linger in Big Oil's mind over signing time for new deals *Top energy adviser to Maliki assures the terms are good enough *Iraq cuts Basra crude price to European buyers *KBR finishes Persian Gulf platform work *Much more... Basra is the key to Iraq -- a major city and source of oil, plus [...]
