Plus: *Petrel also says Oil Ministry agrees to payment, ditches Kurdish partner *Confirmation and details of KRG-South Korea oil investment *Fields in second oil and gas bidding round discussed *Kanaqin residents say fight is over oil, future in Iraq *Alive in Baghdad: Sadr City vs. the Walls *Food rations to be cut *Election rules ban [...]
- Kurdish region PM Barzani says “progress” on Iraq oil law…
- Turkey upset about Iraq oil snub…
- The Iraq oil circus comes to Washington
- Iraq oil production drops slightly as Baghdad criticized for spending oil proceeds…
- Major Iraq Developments: New oil law being drafted; INOC law progress; New smuggling law moves forward…
Even Obama needs more than Biden to make sense of Iraqi oil deals
Barack Obama’s approach to Iraq is strikingly similar to that of the Bush administration and John McCain. In theory, the addition of Joe Biden to Obama’s ticket could change this, but over the last weeks and months there have been interesting moves by Biden to remove most traces of his "Iraq plans" from the public [...]
- 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
- Shahristani all for non-”opportunist” oil firms … Iraq production up in north and south … Forgotten Halabja survivors
- Shahristani on KRG deals … billions to boost production … Iraq gas for Nabucco … Electricity hunt
- Iraq oil, below the volatile south and north strife
Basra amidst violence may see major push by previously ineffective Iraqi troops…
Plus: *Doubts linger in Big Oil's mind over signing time for new deals *Top energy adviser to Maliki assures the terms are good enough *Iraq cuts Basra crude price to European buyers *KBR finishes Persian Gulf platform work *Much more... Basra is the key to Iraq -- a major city and source of oil, plus [...]
