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* 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 civilian who volunteered for duty in Iraq, was recently named one of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' top five proteges.
Burg's duties include inspect…
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*New budget approved after further cuts
*New Report: More than Shiites and Sunnis
*Iraq Teachers Union targeted by government
*Video-Alive in Baghdad: US Withdrawing as Media Retreat from Iraq
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has lent his support to a new two-pronged oil-development strategy in an attempt to appease those who have challenged the current strategy as relying too much on the hope of future investment from international oil companies by launching an immediate domest…
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…
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*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 …
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*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 a peaceful election
A natural gas deal in the works between Shell and the state-run South Gas Co. will now include Mitsubishi and…
Karim Waheed Hasan talks about increasing the power supply but being outpaced by demand, disputes with other ministries, worsening security and sectarianism and politics.
Iraq could export more crude from its southern al-Basra Oil Terminal if there was development onshore of key infrastructure, terminal manager Shukour Taha says.
The director general of the Beiji oil refinery, Ali al-Obaidi, sees a future of violence and corruption that could cripple the facility he saved two years ago.
