While oil flows, questions over compensation and disputes between KRG and Baghdad remain.
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Kurdish oil chief calls on Iraq Minister of Oil to resign, says he has no authority.
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Mixed messages from Iraq as Oil Minister comes out against Kurdish oil exports.
Follow the money
Who gets the money as Iraqi Kurdistan starts crude exports?
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- South Oil Co. leader calls for a new Iraqi National Oil Co.
- Iraq signs $80M in oil export surveys to boost output and mitigate disaster
- Iraq Drilling Co. and Mesopotamia Petroleum announce joint venture
- No moves on Iraq oil law in KRG-Baghdad talks
Iraqi oil politics
Disputes over how oil sector should be managed, controlled will culminate in Parliament questioning of oil minister.
- Maliki takes first swing at KRG oil deals
- Update and Perspectives on the Status Of Forces Agreement
- Oil for Soil: Crisis Group proposes ‘grand bargain’ on Iraq oil land dispute
- Maliki, oil and gas committee to meet on Iraq oil law
- State Dept. says Iraq oil trust fund bill could derail revenue sharing and oil laws
Security of Iraq oil expected to improve with Umm Qasr port revamp
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- Attacks on oil and power sector continue, workers targeted … Kirkuk-Baiji line bombed … Women in Basra risk death by religious fundamentalists …
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- Violence in Iraq oil capitals continues … Iraq-Iran oil pipeline being built? … plus…
Mitsubishi added to Shell-Iraq gas deal
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 [...]
