Plus: *Another Iraq critic of the Shell gas deal *Kirkuk oil flows to Turkey again *Obama’s Iraq *Alive in Baghdad: Iraqi Professors Demand Rights *Much more News of the Iraq oil law being sent to Parliament may be a little too optimistic. "Two weeks ago (Kurdistan Regional Government President) Massoud Barzani was in Baghdad for [...]
- Iraq oil deals, perhaps bids, open to firms who register with Oil Ministry by Jan. 31 …
- 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 …
- Kurds’ new oil deals … Baghdad’s critique … Khurmala controversy … and more…
- Iraqi Kurd government to announce two more oil deals soon … Reliance paid $15M+ as signing bonus
Iraq hoarding oil profits?
The soaring price of oil will leave the Iraqi government with a cumulative budget surplus of as much as $79 billion by year’s end an American federal oversight agency has concluded in an analysis released on Tuesday. The unspent windfall, writes James Glanz for The New York Times, from oil sales from 2005 through 2008, [...]
Turkish trouble and Shiite violence, all in oil-rich Iraq
Turkey may implement economic sanctions against the Kurdistan Regional Government, including cutting needed power supplies, Iran’s PressTV reports. It sounds like a squeeze on the KRG for not quashing the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party. The PKK is threatening to sabotage the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline – in the Kurdistan territory – but has yet to make good [...]
