Mixed signals from Oil Ministry on new offer from Chinese consortium for fields offered in first bidding round, which include famed Fakka field that saw Iranian occupation.
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Remaining sabotage, smuggling no match – so far – for Iraq's plans to upgrade key oil infrastructure.
Any of these candidates for the oil portfolio in the next government have a massive task in reconstruction and expansion that will make or break the country.
The issues that have divided Baghdad and the Kurdish region of Iraq will be awaiting the new government after March 7 national elections.
Nine-judge high court takes further arguments from attorneys and gives four weeks to receive rebuttals on potential oil industry-shaking lawsuit.
Most of Iraq's border oil fields contain landmines left from previous wars, but must be removed to boost production.
The man credited with turning the refinery at Beiji from a nest of corruption to a model of productivity has a warrant out for his arrest but holds the trust of American and Iraqi officials.
Dispute over labor law, attacks on workers, mark ongoing tension between Iraqi oil workers and the government.
Exxon Mobil is the biggest of the foreign oil firms with new deals in Iraq that are confident they can book the fields' reserves, make shareholders happy.
Rob Franklin, president of Exxon Mobil Upstream Ventures, speaks to Iraq Oil Report about tough negotiations with Iraq to finalize a contract for one of Iraq's biggest fields.
