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* Total, Shell confirm oil TSA talks over
* Baghdad energy conference postponed to December
* Alleged secret Defense Ministry torture prison found in Basra
* Alive in Baghdad: Shanasheel, Iraqi Traditional Architecture
* Much more
Iraq expects to sign a gas deal with Royal Dutch Shell within a year and negotiations to sign the deal will start soon, an Iraqi oil official said, Hassan Hafidh reports for Dow Jones Newswires. The Iraqi Oil Ministry needs to agree with Shell the terms o…
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*Iraq announces five long-term oil field/two gas field contracts up for bid
*Iraqi Kurdistan pans Baghdad’s moves
*Iraq Parliament Oil & Gas Committee demands oversight
*KRG explains oil deal breakdown
The U.S. advisers tasked to Iraq’s Oil Ministry were involved to some extent in the negotiated contracts between Iraq and the major international oil companies. U.S. advisers have been assigned to every ministry since 2003, but the oil sector was particularly shadowy and quiet.
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*Korea National Oil Corp. gets two new Iraq Kurd deals
*and made third parties to two existing deals
*Chinese and Turkish firms added to Baghdad deals named
It could be the new age for wildcatters, or just the new age of Iraqi oil development, but the monthly gathering of operators in Iraq’s Kurdistan region is an optimistic party despite above-ground challenges that eclipse those subsoil.
…Dozens of company officials sit around a horseshoe of tables and update each other on the…
*Big Oil deals with Baghdad are the target
*As are Hunt Oil and other KRG deals signed with U.S. firms
*Plus, Iraq to establish Maysan oil company
*And, Alive in Baghdad
U.S. congressional leaders are pressing the Bush administration to block deals to be signed between the Iraqi federal government and the world’s largest oil companies and to cancel deals between the Iraqi Kurdish region and smaller U.S. oil firms.
Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., John Kerry, D-Mass., and Claire McCaskill…
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* More on the Iraq-Shell joint venture for south gas
*Weather impedes oil exports
*Tenders announced for drilling in Rumaila and Luhais
*Much more…
The Kirkuk oil field in northern Iraq could be producing 70,000 barrels more per day, but a dispute between Iraq’s central and Kurdish regional governments has kept the needed equipment gathering dust, Ben Lando reports for United Press International. Two weeks ago the security forces of the two governments, which don’t always work in …
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*Shell and South Gas Company to team up on joint venture
*Turkey and Syria eyeing Akkas gas field
More of Iraq’s oil has seen the light of day and exports have realized post-invasion records as measures to stem attacks and other interference have proved successful along the key northern pipeline system.
Some who used to target the pipeline — especially on the link from Baiji north through hot Sunni Arab insurgent territory and to Turkey — are now paid to protect it, though lon…
Energy expert Luay Jawadal-Khatteeb calls Shell’s associated gas deal “unethical,” explains why Iraq needs a gas master plan that will meet domestic needs first.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq addresses the criticism he’s received for attempting to enter Iraq’s oil sector.
The former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq runs a consulting firm focused on Iraq investments and has just been named to Norwegian oil firm DNO, whose Kurdish projects have stoked controversy. He talks to Iraq Oil Report.
