Plus much more in this long-weekend edition of Iraq Oil Report, including updates on more going on in the oil and electricity sector, election results revealed, and the status of key security, societal and economic issues. A must read: One might call them the Batman and Robin of the Bayji oil refinery. Together Ali al-Obaidi, [...]
Iraq signs $80M in oil export surveys to boost output and mitigate disaster
Plus: *U.N. grants Iraq oil revenue immunity extension *Iraq brings firm in for partial Um Qasr port privatization *Parliament speaker on the way out *Iraqis protest another U.S. raid Iraq has signed contracts worth an estimated $80 million to repair fragile oil export infrastructure in the south and ready it for expansion. The Oil Ministry [...]
- Audit pans Iraq and U.S. efforts to account for oil, fuel and revenue flow…
- Iraq oil exports tops 2M barrels per day…
- BP, Exxon propose two-year deals to produce 200,000 barrels more Iraq oil per day…
- Iraq PM Maliki fires South Oil Co. chief and scores more in oil, other sectors…
- Iraq’s Kurdistan region signs an unknown number of new oil deals…
The Kuwaiti tab
Post-Saddam, Iraq’s war with Kuwait is far from over.
- Key U.S. Senate committee wants answers to Iraq investment in own reconstruction …
- Iraq-Turkey-U.S. talks begin in Istanbul on developing Iraq’s gas …
- Iraq’s oil law, KRG vs. Baghdad and making deals on their own and what is Iraq’s oil potential…
- Iraq and Iran meet in Tehran this week to discuss first Gulf War leftovers, including oil, border disputes and mines…
- Talks on Iraq’s oil disputes not officially happening …
Iraq oil and violence: the next Nigeria?
Plus: *Lukoil blames Shahristani for West Qurna deal *March deadline for first bids on oil and gas fields *December date for announcing second round *Oil and Electricity ministries combine forces on Mussaib topping plant * Alive in Baghdad: Baghdad Security Plan Burdens Residents * Turkey and the PKK, SOFA and more Recurrent violence in oil-rich [...]
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 [...]
