Turkey continues energy strategy in Iraq

Iraqi Oil Minister Abdul Karim al-Luaibi (left) and Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz wait to sign the Siba and Mansuriya gas fields contracts at the Iraq Oil Ministry headquarters in Baghdad June 5, 2011. (BEN LANDO/Iraq Oil Report)

The state-owned oil company of Turkey finalized two gas deals, increasing its strategic energy investments with its restive southern neighbor.

  • A worker for Norway's DNO turns on the taps at the Tawke oil field in June 2008. (BEN LANDO/Iraq Oil Report)

    KRG-Baghdad oil talks advance

    Top deputies and technocrats from Baghdad spent time in Erbil this week hashing out the technical framework for progress if a political deal between the central and regional government is reached.

  • Sour grapes refined to wine in post-oil auction Diyala

    Officials in Diyala province, miffed that foreign companies missed the opportunity for oil investment here, are looking upbeat now at alternative investment prospects.

Pipeline blast in southern Iraq fixed, oil flow rerouted …

*But danger looms as workers can’t get to work *Those at stations since Tuesday running out of supplies, food and sleep *Basra violence threatens oil investment *Recap of violence from Basra to Baghdad *Port workers say military aims is to privatize *Humanitarian aid desperately needed but unable to reach Basra *KRG posts electricity tenders Iraq [...]

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