A review of the Cabinet's proposed oil law shows the Maliki administration is angling to keep control centralized in the Oil Ministry.
-
According to previously undisclosed communiqué, Kurdish leaders want specific oil and revenue laws passed in 2011 and say KRG should decide constitutionality of its oil deals.
-
Iraq Oil Report talks to Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh about the massive deficit spending, the budget implications on the KRG-Baghdad dispute – and how it may end.
Lingering in the pipeline
Oil exports from northern fields doesn’t mean a deal on KRG oil contracts, even those exporting now, and a compromise is made more complex by gas deal.
Iraqiya nets Parliament oil committee leadership
Top posts in key committees are doled out as the new legislature begins to take shape.
- Showdown: Baghdad vs. Irbil … Iraqi Kurds’ Oil Prerogatives … and more ….
- 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 on KRG deals … billions to boost production … Iraq gas for Nabucco … Electricity hunt
- U.S. building military base to guard Iraq oil in Gulf
