Iraqi deputy minister confirms deal was reached during recent Baghdad meets to ship Iranian gas into Iraq and then to Syria, likely Europe next.
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Iraqi official confirms plans for LNG export, but promises to meet domestic power demands before sending natural gas abroad.
International and Iraqi state companies say tribes in Dhi Qar province are making demands and threats that amount to extortion.
While overall violence in Iraq is at 2004 levels, there is an outstanding – and growing – risk to investors who will operate in a country that remains high in human rights abuses.
Haider al-Abadi, spokesman for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Dawa Party, tells Iraq Oil Report the national oil company and a technocrat oil minister is “very important for rebuilding Iraq.”
Negotiations on pay, hours and leadership break down once more, and unions call workers to withhold labour.
A top oil ministry technocrat who survived deBaathification (twice) and defended Baghdad’s Daura refinery against insurgents is running a long-shot bid for Iraq’s vicious parliament.
Nine-judge high court takes further arguments from attorneys and gives four weeks to receive rebuttals on potential oil industry-shaking lawsuit.
Negotiations on joint venture company to capture wasted natural gas have ended and project will be put to tender, said Iraqi Minister of Electricity.
