Plus: *Iraq sweetens deal to oil majors in Istanbul meetings *South Oil Co. offers oil companies 40 wells to drill *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 [...]
KRG’s Hawrami pans Iraq oil law movement
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 [...]
Update and Perspectives on the Status Of Forces Agreement
Plus: *SOFA negotiations rocky but developing *Iraq Oil Report offers first look at text submitted to Parliament *Kurdistan-Baghdad relations rocky *KRG signs U.N. electricity help *Iraq Oil Ministry wants helicopters *Alive in Baghdad: Sahwa, What Next After Al-Qaeda? *Iraq Press Roundup The Status Of Forces Agreement, or SOFA, is nearing a late-November deadline when Iraq’s [...]
The Real Energy Security Factor
This week was filled with the Petraeus/Crocker/Congress/Bush/benchmark circus. It’s Friday and the Iraq Oil Report will now refrain (OK, I’ll have some good links at the end of today’s report). The three rings barely touched on oil anyway, with the administration touting the dissemination of oil revenue as a sign of success and Congress pointing [...]
