Iraq's Kurds still pegged for kingmaker status but demands for oil autonomy will be weakened by internal competition and challenges from resurgent Sunni voters.
Iraq oil exports drop in February
Iraq is still having trouble keeping exports up to summer 2008 levels when oil prices were at all time highs.
- Iraqi and international oil firms’ talks on first post-war deals are moving along …
- Turkey to study pipeline for Iraq gas to run same route as Iraq oil pipelines…
- Iraq intent on boosting oil production by 17 percent; security and investment still uncertain …
- Iraq oil production not up as reported, possibly slipping …
- The blacklist begins of firms who signed oil deals with the KRG … Baiji violence increases, oil sector a target … Juan Cole’s Top 10 list …
Load 'em up: fields in Iraqi Kurdistan begin
While oil flows, questions over compensation and disputes between KRG and Baghdad remain.
New security for Iraq’s most important city … Kirkuk vote delayed … New oil tankers, Syria pipeline … 5M Iraq orphans …
Basra’s Changing Hands Iraq’s oil capital, Basra, is now officially under control of Iraqi forces. The British have "controlled" the area since 2003. Control is relative, however, since under British occupation Iraq’s main rivalries have been allowed to foster competing militia violence and, along with other armed groups and gangs, turn the oil and fuels [...]
