Iraqi cabinet bypasses Parliament, grants British forces last-minute extension to keep training Iraqi Navy guarding oil exports.
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Iraqi and U.S. security officials say it’s not a coincidence the four recent attacks on the northern oil pipeline occurred under the watch of the 4th Iraqi Army Division.
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Repair crews are scrambling to fix yet another interdiction in the northern crude export pipeline which is being blamed on sabotage.
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.
- Kirkuk exports to Turkey expected to rise this month, though full restart of pipeline unknown …
- 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 …
- Accounting for Iraq’s oil … DNO production up, with nowhere to go … Cholera a threat in the north still … Oil, healthcare workers and teachers have outstanding demands …
- Pentagon report: Iraq Oil Ministry spending a little more on capital budgets, ranks production and electricity too … New deals by 2008 for Iraq’s oil sector … Turkey’s invasion unfolds …
- U.S. firms wanted for power projects … China getting started … Security self-sufficiency … The worst is over?
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.
What is the US’s Energy Fusion Cell, and where have they been all this war?…
There's optimism in Iraq, at least from a mysterious cadre called the Energy Fusion Cell, which for the past eight months worked to bring coherence to both U.S. and Iraqi initiatives in the oil, gas and power sectors -- the backbone of its citizens' quality of life and the bulk of the national budget. It's [...]
