Plus: * Shahristani says low oil price warrants cut * Exxon Mobil leaning on Iraq investment * Women in Iraq * Iran-Iraq border dispute remains * Iraq's Agent Orange New physical barriers keeping would-be saboteurs from attacking Iraq's northern pipeline have led to increased oil exports. It's a major reason Elizabeth Burg, a U.S. Army [...]
Iraq oil exports see increase but not enough to offset price slump
Plus: *Confusion remains over first bidding round as round 2 announced *Heritage spuds in KRG *U.S. pressing for extension of immunity for Iraq oil revenue *Paris Club makes good on forgiving last 20 percent *Basra: U.S. troops in, elections coming, federal state fight looms *Women’s rights leader beheaded in Kirkuk *Alive in Baghdad: Journalists Still [...]
- Much-hyped tenders for developing Iraq oil and gas fields out by June 30
- Audit pans Iraq and U.S. efforts to account for oil, fuel and revenue flow…
- Iraq gov't reshuffles careers of dozens in south oil industry…
- Iraq oil exports drop slightly as price of oil stays high…
- Iraq Gov’t Spokesman: Deal reached on oil law, Kurd contracts, Peshmerga funding, U.N.’s Kirkuk effort…
Kirkuk petition stokes tensions
A petition campaign collecting signatures supporting a Kurdish Kirkuk has provoked Arab and Turkmen anger.
- Iraq’s oil law, KRG vs. Baghdad and making deals on their own and what is Iraq’s oil potential…
- Iraq’s Oil Ministry is getting ever closer to the first post-Iraq war oil deals…
- Interview: Iraqi Kurdistan’s coordinator for U.N. missions … Iraqi oil capital Basra faces tough new year … Kurds make deal with Sunni Arabs … Pentagon to make example of journalist: treat like terrorist …
- Kurds threaten to break from coalition government in Baghdad … UNSC and IMF give another year in Iraq … The future of Basra …
- No deals yet in Baghdad oil meetings with Iraqi Kurds … Turkey invades Iraq … Kirkuk, a oil-rich hot spot, settled for six months … LGBTQ in Iraq … Dollars and Bullets …
Oil hub Kirkuk sees massive bombing during political lunch
EDITOR'S NOTE: Two people have pointed out corrections, or rather clarifications, that it is necessary to make to this post. I have left the original as a reminder of the risk of becoming detached. 1. The second paragraph of the first story should read: Yaseen Taha and Adam Ashton offer the most personal account and [...]
Former SCOP official laments 'golden era' for Iraq oil, optimistic for future
Plus: *Oil terminal moving from U.S. to Iraqi security *Finance Ministry orders oil report from Oil Ministry, issuing $5B in bonds, courting international banks *Elections begin *World Bank: 44 percent of Iraqis make less than $85/month *Battle Against Brutality: women in Iraq *Alive in Baghdad: Fake Pharmacies Plague Iraq *New SIGIR reports *Iraq Press Roundup [...]
