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		<title>Lingering in the pipeline</title>
		<link>http://www.iraqoilreport.com/oil/lingering-in-the-pipeline-1607/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=lingering-in-the-pipeline</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Addax Petroleum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alaa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ali Belo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assem Jihad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Austria]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pot Holes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spokesman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taq Taq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taq Taq Operating Co.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tawke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey's Genel Enerji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[With oil]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oil exports from northern fields doesn’t mean a deal on KRG oil contracts, even those exporting now, and a compromise is made more complex by gas deal.]]></description>
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		<title>Gov’t backs Shahristani in oil row with KRG</title>
		<link>http://www.iraqoilreport.com/politics/gov%e2%80%99t-backs-shahristani-in-oil-row-with-krg-1761/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=gov%25e2%2580%2599t-backs-shahristani-in-oil-row-with-krg</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ali Dabbagh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Lando]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commercial Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dabbagh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dozen oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Self Reliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erbil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Export Pipeline]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gas fields]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gina Chon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hussain al-Shahristani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Oil Companies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iraq's Cabinet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[landmark new hydrocarbons law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nouri al-Maliki]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oil Minister]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iraqoilreport.com/?p=1761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Press conference confirms June 29 contract awards; KRG deals must be approved by Oil Ministry.]]></description>
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		<title>KRG firms are takeover prospects</title>
		<link>http://www.iraqoilreport.com/oil/production-exports/krg-firms-are-takeover-prospects-1720/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=krg-firms-are-takeover-prospects</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Production & Exports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Addax Petroleum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Addax Petroleum Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bad Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baghdad Baghdad Governorate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canada Heritage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese National Petroleum Corp.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese National Petroleum Corporation Assets Management Co.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Company Heritage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cukurova Holding A.S.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNO International ASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Export Pipeline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genel Enerji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heritage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heritage Fund Management S.A.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heritage Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heritage Oil Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jalal Talabani]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Massoud Barzani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Iraq]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oil Contracts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oil investor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Jalal Talabani]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wasit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Addax and Genel are in the process of merging or being acquired, though one could have serious repercussions in southern Iraq for the new parent.]]></description>
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		<title>Budget hopeful on oil rise</title>
		<link>http://www.iraqoilreport.com/oil/budget-hopeful-on-oil-rise-1708/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=budget-hopeful-on-oil-rise</link>
		<comments>http://www.iraqoilreport.com/oil/budget-hopeful-on-oil-rise-1708/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Lando]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuri al-Maliki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil output]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil Prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prime Minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reuters]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[USD]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iraqoilreport.com/?p=1708</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An increase in exports and oil prices could allow Iraq to boost spending later this year.]]></description>
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		<title>Laid to rest</title>
		<link>http://www.iraqoilreport.com/politics/laid-to-rest-1664/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=laid-to-rest</link>
		<comments>http://www.iraqoilreport.com/politics/laid-to-rest-1664/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aguilar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ambassador]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iraqoilreport.com/?p=1664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. official tasked with advising Iraq Electricity Ministry, killed in Fallujah IED, returns to family in Chicago.]]></description>
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		<title>Iraqi oil politics</title>
		<link>http://www.iraqoilreport.com/politics/oil-policy/iraqi-oil-politics-1620/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=iraqi-oil-politics</link>
		<comments>http://www.iraqoilreport.com/politics/oil-policy/iraqi-oil-politics-1620/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oil Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alaa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ali Belo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assem Jihad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ben Lando]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disputes over how oil sector should be managed, controlled will culminate in Parliament questioning of oil minister.]]></description>
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		<title>Oil law progress?</title>
		<link>http://www.iraqoilreport.com/oil/oil-law-progress-1616/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=oil-law-progress</link>
		<comments>http://www.iraqoilreport.com/oil/oil-law-progress-1616/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MP says law coming through pipeline soon, would be required to sign oil deals.]]></description>
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		<title>Shelling out Iraq’s gas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Controversial pact between Iraq and Shell moving along, with Parliament requesting involvement.]]></description>
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		<title>Load &#8216;em up: fields in Iraqi Kurdistan begin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While oil flows, questions over compensation and disputes between KRG and Baghdad remain.]]></description>
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		<title>Follow the money</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 19:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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