Oil prices sink, production slows, the economy recedes and Iraqi politics: the perfect storm for Iraq’s oil sector.
Plus:
* Shahristani says low oil price warrants cut
* Exxon Mobil leaning on Iraq investment
* Women in Iraq
* Iran-Iraq border dispute remains
* Iraq’s Agent Orange
New physical barriers keeping would-be saboteurs from attacking Iraq’s northern pipeline have led to increased oil exports. It’s a major reason Elizabeth Burg, a U.S. Army civilian who volunteered for duty in Iraq, was recently named one of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ top five proteges.
Burg’s duties include inspect…
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*Read the entire draft Technical Service Contract
*Oil Ministry gives more info on oil fields to companies
*Russia’s Lukoil, Italy’s Edison express interest in fields on Istanbul sidelines
*Missan Oil Co. preps for new well drilling
*Technip awarded new Karbala refinery
*Oil to Jordan slowed by technicalities
*Violence rocks powder keg Mosul, Shiite pilgrimage
*Ex-Women’s Affairs minister says male-dominated Iraq politics a sham
*KRG enhances women’s access to politics
*Sadr cal…
Published
February 12, 2009,
5:51 pm in
Companies
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 a peaceful election
A natural gas deal in the works between Shell and the state-run South Gas Co. will now include Mitsubishi and…
Published
February 10, 2009,
4:57 pm in
Oil Policy
Plus:
*Shahristani wants expanded ministry role, new national oil co., less red tape
*Petrochemical worker repression outrage by int’l union
*Iraqi in Gitmo prison now missing
*Sarkozy in Baghdad visit wants French firms back in country
*Maliki responds to Biden threats to sovereignty
*Video: Building boom in northern Iraq
*Shoe-throwing Zaidi gets Feb. 19 trial date
*New Carnegie report on peace in Kurdistan
*Much more
Iraq’s Oil Ministry meets with disgruntled international oil exe…
Published
January 26, 2009,
6:15 pm in
Business
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*Iraq reduces 2009 as oil price slides
*Iran not involved with Majnoon development
*Dora expansion is ready, Shahristani says Iraq to meet domestic fuel demand this year
*Elections coming up
*Alive in Baghdad: Pastry Shops Thriving in Iraq
*Much more
Iraq’s oil exports in December were the highest since July as northern exports carried the weight of a drop in the south, Oil Ministry data show.
Most of Iraq’s oil fields, production and exports are located in the south, where tan…
Published
January 16, 2009,
3:13 pm in
Business
Plus:
*Iraq reiterates Syria gas line plans
*Ministry to discuss round 1 oil and gas bidding in Istanbul
*Iraq election tactics: “iffy, illegal”
*The missing Muntadar
*Buying old Russian military equipment
*Iraq Press Roundup
*Much more
A Russian delegation visiting Baghdad is attempting to reboot ties with Iraq. Russia was expecting a leg-up in either resigning a Saddam-era oil deal or other energy prospects, and hoped a 2008 move erasing Iraqi debt would clinch it, to no avail.
V…
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 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…
Published
December 3, 2008,
9:58 pm in
Business
Plus:
*Oil prices spark need for more oil to meet budget
*Could help Iraq in long run
*Increase oil production needs investment
*KRG responds to Maliki
*India’s ONGC third in line for Saddam deal renegotiate
*The Trains of Iraq
*Iraq Press Roundup
*U.N. may need pact with U.S. in Iraq
A conference to connect Iraq oil officials and the international oil industry instead created a space for intra-Iraqi dialogue on key disputes and sticking points holding back Iraq’s oil sector.
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