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		<title>Iraq finalizes oil drilling joint venture with Mesopotamia Petroleum</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. will be responsible for drilling at least 60 wells a year, with the country seeing a 120,000 barrels per day increase within the first year, Ahmed Rasheed repor...]]></description>
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		<title>Few details emerge about strange South Korea-Iraq oil deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plus:
*Ghadban: Iraq oil workers will bring back production
*Electricity Minister: France welcome to build nuclear plant
*Iraq Oil Ministry gets 38 applications for second round of oil and gas field bids
*Get your second round company list only at Iraq Oil Report
*Pipeline to Syria makes news, no construction yet
*Int’l Unions take Iraq Government, ministries to task for labor violations
*Alive in Baghdad: new video
*Much more in Oil, Energy, Economics and Security, Society &#038; Politics...]]></description>
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		<title>Baiji sees corruption cleanup, saving Iraq oil from smugglers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plus much more in this long-weekend edition of Iraq Oil Report, including updates on more going on in the oil and electricity sector, election results revealed, and the status of key security, societal and economic issues. A must read:

One might call them the Batman and Robin of the Bayji oil refinery.
Together Ali al-Obaidi, director-general of the Northern Oil Company, and his sidekick, Colonel Adil al-Jamali, commander of the Bayji oil police, have become a formidable crime-fighting duo a...]]></description>
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		<title>Security of Iraq oil expected to improve with Umm Qasr port revamp</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plus:
*After the Istanbul meetings with international oil companies
*Now Prime Minister Maliki takes charge
*Electricity Ministry reaches out to Iran, Syria, Turkey counterparts
*Obama calls Turkish leaders, talks include Iraq
*Japan makes pre-loan visit to Basra
*U.S. says Western investment incoming
*Pres. Talabani's party in limbo
*Much more

The Iraqi Navy is paying the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to revamp part of Umm Qasr port in southern Iraq, the first Iraq to U.S.ACE Foreign ...]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq oil contract disputed in new report commissioned by Parliament energy committee</title>
		<link>http://www.iraqoilreport.com/politics/iraq-oil-contract-disputed-in-new-report-commissioned-by-parliament-energy-committee-581/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=iraq-oil-contract-disputed-in-new-report-commissioned-by-parliament-energy-committee</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plus:
*Read the entire draft Technical Service Contract
*Oil Ministry gives more info on oil fields to companies
*Russia's Lukoil, Italy's Edison express interest in fields on Istanbul sidelines
*Missan Oil Co. preps for new well drilling
*Technip awarded new Karbala refinery
*Oil to Jordan slowed by technicalities
*Violence rocks powder keg Mosul, Shiite pilgrimage 
*Ex-Women's Affairs minister says male-dominated Iraq politics a sham
*KRG enhances women's access to politics
*Sadr cal...]]></description>
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		<title>Mitsubishi added to Shell-Iraq gas deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plus:
*Iraq sweetens deal to oil majors in Istanbul meetings
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*Walid Khadduri on oil and elections
*Iran-Iraq meetings pledge oil, other economic trade boost
*KRG changes legislative body name, says Qandil Mountains contained
*Baghdad museum to reopen
*Fallujah still in ruins
*Joost Hiltermann: lessons of a peaceful election

A natural gas deal in the works between Shell and the state-run South Gas Co. will now include Mitsubishi and...]]></description>
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		<title>Iraqi oil ministry to face tough crowd, critics in upcoming meetings</title>
		<link>http://www.iraqoilreport.com/politics/oil-policy/iraqi-oil-ministry-to-face-tough-crowd-critics-in-upcoming-meetings-568/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=iraqi-oil-ministry-to-face-tough-crowd-critics-in-upcoming-meetings</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plus:
*Shahristani wants expanded ministry role, new national oil co., less red tape
*Petrochemical worker repression outrage by int'l union
*Iraqi in Gitmo prison now missing
*Sarkozy in Baghdad visit wants French firms back in country
*Maliki responds to Biden threats to sovereignty
*Video: Building boom in northern Iraq
*Shoe-throwing Zaidi gets Feb. 19 trial date
*New Carnegie report on peace in Kurdistan
*Much more

Iraq's Oil Ministry meets with disgruntled international oil exe...]]></description>
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		<title>U.N. planning oil and federalism meeting in northern Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq Oil Report can confirm an upcoming meeting on federalism and oil and gas management in Iraq, organized by the European Union and United Nations. The date cannot be confirmed as yet.  Although Voices of Iraq reports the conference will be held in April and focus on the oil law, sources told IOR the draft law will not be the main topic.

Exports of Iraqi oil from Turkey's port of Ceyhan are delayed by several days due to a payment dispute between Baghdad and Turkish companies, industry sour...]]></description>
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		<title>South Oil Co. leader calls for a new Iraqi National Oil Co.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plus:
*Elections insight following more oil news
*Oil exports in January up again
*Foster Wheeler gets south oil terminal deal
*Abu Dhabi start-up Petromal, with Premier, wants Iraq deals
*Korea firm starts oil work alone
*The new U.S. Ambassador to Iraq
*Alive in Baghdad: Night Life Returns to Baghdad
*Treasury Dept. lists PJAK as terrorists
*Iraq contracting gets first dose of new scrutiny
*Gravediggers still busy as violence still outrageous despite increased security
*Much more
...]]></description>
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		<title>Elections: THE Iraq story</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plus:
*Elections and Oil
*Background and context for historic provincial vote
*Oil big in the SIGIR quarterly report to Congress
*Minister of Planning calls for privatizing oil sector
*Japan-Iraq strike strategic agreement, including oil sector
*Chevron exec cagey optimistic on Iraq oil
*Iraq oil unions unite workers for upcoming conference
*Oil price hits Iraq economy, workers
*Much more

Plenty of important updates in Iraq’s oil sector follows election news.

Provincial election...]]></description>
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