Plus: *New budget approved after further cuts *New Report: More than Shiites and Sunnis *Iraq Teachers Union targeted by government *Video-Alive in Baghdad: US Withdrawing as Media Retreat from Iraq Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has lent his support to a new two-pronged oil-development strategy in an attempt to appease those who have challenged the [...]
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Plus: *Iraq sweetens deal to oil majors in Istanbul meetings *South Oil Co. offers oil companies 40 wells to drill *Walid Khadduri on oil and elections *Iran-Iraq meetings pledge oil, other economic trade boost *KRG changes legislative body name, says Qandil Mountains contained *Baghdad museum to reopen *Fallujah still in ruins *Joost Hiltermann: lessons of [...]
Iraq ends year unveiling oil and gas fields for second bidding round
Iraq on Wednesday opened up some of its most prized oil and gas fields to international firms that have been excluded for decades, part of new deals that could more than double its output within a few years, Ahmed Rasheed reports for Reuters. In a second bid round, following on from one earlier this year, [...]
- Iraq oil exports from two northern fields not guaranteed
- Shell-Iraq gas company would be Basra natural gas monopoly
- U.S. report: old Iraq southern oil pipelines could break
- Dana and Crescent start gas production in northern Iraq
- Iraq to offer 82 percent of proven oil reserves to international oil companies
Obama outlines U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, war
President Barack Obama said Iraqis will no longer see U.S. troops in their streets "by the end of 2011," which he said was in line with the Status Of Forces Agreement signed between Iraq and the United States. The troop drawdown has already been started and "by August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq [...]
- U.S. Senators push for Iraq oil trust fund
- U.S. Congress calls on Bush to block or cancel Iraq oil deals
- U.S. negotiators say Iraq must sign a bi-lateral security deal or lose billions in oil revenue…
- U.S. Senate committee tags defense bill with Iraq reconstruction funds blockade…
- U.S. Congress to Iraq: Pay our war expenses with your oil revenue
Iraq oil and violence: the next Nigeria?
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 [...]
- Iraq oil up end-’07, sketchy ‘08 … Update on South Korea backlash
- New security for Iraq’s most important city … Kirkuk vote delayed … New oil tankers, Syria pipeline … 5M Iraq orphans …
- Attacks on oil and power sector continue, workers targeted … Kirkuk-Baiji line bombed … Women in Basra risk death by religious fundamentalists …
- Turkish trouble and Shiite violence, all in oil-rich Iraq
Baiji sees corruption cleanup, saving Iraq oil from smugglers
Plus much more in this long-weekend edition of Iraq Oil Report, including updates on more going on in the oil and electricity sector, election results revealed, and the status of key security, societal and economic issues. A must read: One might call them the Batman and Robin of the Bayji oil refinery. Together Ali al-Obaidi, [...]
