Plus: *More on the Shell gas deal *German, UAE and Iran investors eye southern refineries *Alive in Baghdad: Selling Fuel *Kidnapping in the NOC Iraq won't award temporary oilfield services contracts to international companies before a bidding round aimed at bringing in foreign expertise to boost crude production, Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani said, Bloomberg News [...]
- KRG signs new oil deals … Kurds say Turkey is after Kirkuk, not PKK
- Iran and China answer calls by Iraq’s Electricity Ministry
- An Iraqi Kurdish leader explains their oil prerogative, plus sales of Kirkuk oil and electricity developments
- Iraq’s National Security Chief says an oil law compromise where everyone is “unhappy” is drawing near
- U.S. not happy with Hunt Oil
Iraq’s oil law, KRG vs. Baghdad and making deals on their own and what is Iraq’s oil potential…
Plus: *Iraqi Kurds, Iraqi Arabs, Washington and Ankara square up over the Turkish invasion into northern Iraq *Kirkuk pipeline to Turkey stops *Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq challenged in southern provincial strongholds *Iraq Press Roundup *Much, much more… Iraq's draft oil law is stalled in Parliament, the national government and Kurdistan Regional Government are moving [...]
Turkish trouble and Shiite violence, all in oil-rich Iraq
Turkey may implement economic sanctions against the Kurdistan Regional Government, including cutting needed power supplies, Iran’s PressTV reports. It sounds like a squeeze on the KRG for not quashing the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party. The PKK is threatening to sabotage the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline – in the Kurdistan territory – but has yet to make good [...]
