Plus:
*Obama and Iraq
*More Iraq oil news
*Oil, Transport and Port workers meet for “Well-to-Wheel” in Amman
*Pentagon Report: Iraqis lack basic services, fueling discontent
*Basra and the ballot
* War News Radio: On the Move, Iraq’s displaced families
*Iraq Press Roundup
* Alive in Baghdad: Ashura, A Sign of the Times
A new audit of a $1.2 billion contract for reconstruction in Iraq’s southern oil sector split the blame for cost overruns and underperformance between the main contra…
Published
January 5, 2009,
3:45 pm in
Business
Plus:
*China starts Ahdab project
*Iraq earns more than $60B in oil sales in 2008
*but low prices aren’t the only trouble on the horizon
*Coalition rebuilds Iraq Navy, guarding oil tankers
*Iraq signs $70M Pratt & Whitney turbine deal
*Torture continues: genital mutilation of girls in northern Iraq
*Iraq Press Roundup
Iraq’s Oil Ministry has opened a new pre-qualification application process for firms that didn’t pass the cut for the first round of oil and gas field bidding, Ben Lando …
Published
December 23, 2008,
12:41 pm in
Oil
Plus:
*U.N. grants Iraq oil revenue immunity extension
*Iraq brings firm in for partial Um Qasr port privatization
*Parliament speaker on the way out
*Iraqis protest another U.S. raid
Iraq has signed contracts worth an estimated $80 million to repair fragile oil export infrastructure in the south and ready it for expansion.
The Oil Ministry wants to raise oil production from 2.37 million barrels per day to 6 million bpd in 10 years. It’s currently exporting 1.76 million bpd, and oil re…
Published
December 22, 2008,
6:15 pm in
Oil
Plus:
*Confusion remains over first bidding round as round 2 announced
*Heritage spuds in KRG
*U.S. pressing for extension of immunity for Iraq oil revenue
*Paris Club makes good on forgiving last 20 percent
*Basra: U.S. troops in, elections coming, federal state fight looms
*Women’s rights leader beheaded in Kirkuk
*Alive in Baghdad: Journalists Still at Risk in Iraq
*Shoe-throwing Zaidi update
*Much, much more…
Iraqi oil exports increased last month to 1.76 million barrels per …
Published
December 15, 2008,
12:18 pm in
Politics
Plus:
*2011 given as Oil Police readiness
*Cabinet approves GE and Siemens deal
*U.S.’s Iraq reconstruction effort criticized in draft report
*Zebari at U.N. for oil funds protection
*Much more
Basrawis will be asked to allow a vote on the future governance structure of their province beginning today. Proponents of the plan to create a strong, Kurdistan Regional Government-like region of Basra province have a month to collect the required nearly 141,000 signatures, Reidar Visser writes a…
Published
December 8, 2008,
3:07 pm in
Oil
Plus:
*PKK announces Eid ceasefire, rapprochement
*Basra to begin regionalism signature campaign
*Peshmerga rep in Baghdad for talks
*New life at Anbar university
It’s been 50 years since Peter Redman drilled wells on Iraq’s Zubair and Rumaila fields on behalf of British Petroleum, a major stakeholder of the Iraq Petroleum Co., which controlled Iraq’s oil until it was kicked out in the 1970s in the nationalization campaign. Now he’s back.
Ben Lando reports for United Press Internationa…
Published
December 7, 2008,
8:21 am in
Oil
Iraq Drilling Co. says a joint venture is imminent with U.K.-based Mesopotamia Petroleum Co. Idriss Muhsen al-Yassiri, the director general of IDC, one of the companies of the Iraq Oil Ministry, made the announcement Sunday at the Iraq Energy Expo & Conference in Baghdad.
Yassiri was explaining the need to enhance Iraq’s drilling capabilities to increase and enhance well recovery and add to the technology of the IDC. He then asked Mesopotamia Petroleum Executive Chairman Stephen Remp and Dep…
Published
December 5, 2008,
6:08 pm in
Oil
*Oil and money flow remain to be decided
*Oil law, constitution among other related roadblocks
Plus:
*Highlights of the first ever Baghdad-based Iraq oil conference
*Shahristani pitches 10-year plan to global oil industry
*Refugees feel brunt of oil price drop
* Alive in Baghdad: Still No Electricity Surge
*Iraq Press Roundup
*Much more
While two companies are technically prepping their northern Iraq oil fields for exports to Turkey, political disputes between the central Iraqi govern…
Plus:
*Reality sets in as KRG-Baghdad make oil export agreement
*PKK bombing of Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline requires new Turkish strategy
*Update and more exclusive documents on the Status Of Forces Agreement
*The Iraq Press Roundup
*Much more
Key members of Iraq’s Parliament, including the chairman of the Oil & Gas Committee, have issued a statement outlining concerns over the efforts of Iraq’s Oil Ministry and Shell to create a joint venture for natural gas, Ahmed Rasheed reports for Re…
Published
November 24, 2008,
6:01 pm in
Business
*Export issues remain
*No deal reached on other KRG oil deals
*Khurmala dome to be joint developed
*Iraq oil exports increase but income drops with oil price
Two companies developing oil fields in Iraq’s Kurdistan region received approval from Baghdad to tie in to the northern Iraq pipeline, a company official said.
An official from the Taq Taq Operating Co., TTOPCO, a joint venture between Turkey’s Genel Enerji and Canada’s Addax Petroleum, said on condition of anonymity that both TTOP…
