While oil flows, questions over compensation and disputes between KRG and Baghdad remain.
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Claims arrest with no charge is political, taste of what’s to come in run-up to Parliament elections, and a threat to press freedom.
Follow the money
Who gets the money as Iraqi Kurdistan starts crude exports?
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- Iraq begins oil and gas field bidding process for international oil firms
- Four days until Iraq oil and gas fields unveiled to international oil firms
- Iraq to offer 82 percent of proven oil reserves to international oil companies
- Iraq–China oil deal made final next week
Maliki makes waves with gov't change
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's call for majority rule provokes strong reactions.
- Iraq oil contract disputed in new report commissioned by Parliament energy committee
- U.S. watchdog cites KBR, U.S. and Iraq governments for poor south oil reconstruction
- Maliki takes first swing at KRG oil deals
- Update and Perspectives on the Status Of Forces Agreement
- BREAKING: Text of Status Of Forces Agreement
Elections: THE Iraq story
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Iraq finalizes oil drilling joint venture with Mesopotamia Petroleum
A deal has been finalized creating a joint venture between the Iraq Drilling Co. and the British Mesopotamia Petroleum Co. It’s the first such joint venture in post-Saddam Iraq, and will likely be a template for future projects to bring foreign oil companies into the world’s third largest oil reserves. The Iraq Oil Service Co. [...]
