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 [...]
Iraq begins oil and gas field bidding process for international oil firms
Plus: *Turkish special envoy in Baghdad for PKK talks with Barzani *Iraq aims at 2008 provincial elections *Finance Minister blasts budget surplus critique *Iraq Press Roundup *Much more Iraq's Oil Ministry announced most of the details 35 of the world's largest oil companies were waiting for as the country begins to open the third-largest proven [...]
- Iraqi oil: Deal or no deal?
- Iraq oil deals in Baghdad talks as KRG signs with Talisman
- KRG holding oil deal signing bonus and sales until Iraq passes revenue sharing law
- Iraq’s Kurdistan region signs an unknown number of new oil deals…
- Iraq Oil Ministry waiting on Big Oil to submit oil deal proposals…
Iraq oil not part of OPEC cuts
Iraq not bound by quota; struggling to reverse decline Plus: *Walid Khadduri on the return of Big Oil to Iraq *Iraq presidency council gives oil smuggling law OK *SOFA Update: English text and analysis *Labor Minister target of suicide bomb *Iraqis suffer for lack of basic services *The Mahdi Army bides its time *Much more [...]
- Leader of Iraq oil workers says Iraqis can increase production, with limited help from outsider if need be, but Baghdad refuses to spend the capital …
- Showdown: Baghdad vs. Irbil … Iraqi Kurds’ Oil Prerogatives … and more ….
- Oil makes the politics go round … Iraq’s political situation further fracturing … Bush and Maliki, best friends forever …
- Iraqi Kurds vs. Baghdad heats up over oil deals … Kirkuk vote unclear … Unspinning the Surge … Remembering Basra
- Iraq oil, below the volatile south and north strife




