Plus: * Total, Shell confirm oil TSA talks over * Baghdad energy conference postponed to December * Alleged secret Defense Ministry torture prison found in Basra * Alive in Baghdad: Shanasheel, Iraqi Traditional Architecture * Much more Iraq expects to sign a gas deal with Royal Dutch Shell within a year and negotiations to sign [...]
- Pentagon report: Iraq Oil Ministry spending a little more on capital budgets, ranks production and electricity too … New deals by 2008 for Iraq’s oil sector … Turkey’s invasion unfolds …
- Iraq oil production still up, but can it hold? … Basra residents not fans of Brits … Electricity targeted again by attackers … Investigating Iraq’s U.S. Inspector General
- U.S. firms wanted for power projects … China getting started … Security self-sufficiency … The worst is over?
- Big Oil to sign Iraq deals soon … Battle for Basra, Iraq’s Oil … Insurgents strong in Mosul on smuggling …
- Oil gulf widens between KRG and Baghdad … Iraq oil exports up … Iran, U.S. meet over Iraq … Turkey tension down
International Women’s Day issue: Women in Iraq hit hardest by war, face deadly duo of violence and religious fundamentalism in politics…
Iraq's ambassador to the United States, Samir Sumaida'ie, began his welcome to the International Women's Day celebration he was hosting this week not with the praises for his countrywomen, but with a moment of silence. Guests packed into the embassy reception hall bowed their heads -- some covered in the Muslim hijab, most not -- [...]
Iraq oil up end-’07, sketchy ‘08 … Update on South Korea backlash
Iraq's oil sector ends 2007 on a relatively upbeat note, with production at levels not seen since before the war. But the year had more downs than ups, and sustaining success through next year is far from guaranteed. Iraq averaged production of 2.4 million barrels per day in November, according to the global energy information [...]
