Unresolved disagreements over the control of Iraq’s oil and the distribution of revenue have stopped the new parliament, before it can even start.
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Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq addresses the criticism he’s received for attempting to enter Iraq’s oil sector.
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.
Haider al-Abadi, spokesman for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Dawa Party, tells Iraq Oil Report the national oil company and a technocrat oil minister is “very important for rebuilding Iraq.”
An acrimonious battle temporarily stops between bosses and workers in Iraq’s southern oil sector while elections dominate Iraq and unions call for the end of Maliki’s rule.
Negotiations on pay, hours and leadership break down once more, and unions call workers to withhold labour.
Dispute over labor law, attacks on workers, mark ongoing tension between Iraqi oil workers and the government.
Section in $71 billion budget legislation threatens Iraqi Kurdistan’s share of revenue if oil exports remain shut in.
Technical analysis and opinion by an Iraqi oil consultant, a founding executive of the Iraqi National Oil Company, and an author of the 2006 draft Iraqi oil law.
Thanks to two oil auctions, within eight years Iraq may eclipse Saudi Arabia to become the largest oil producer in the world. Many obstacles, however, remain.
