Plus: * 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 [...]
State Dept. says Iraq oil trust fund bill could derail revenue sharing and oil laws
Plus: *Oil Minister Shahristani blames KRG oil deals for oil law delay *Top two on Parliament energy committee dispute oil issues *Former South Oil Co. head made official ministry adviser *Parliament sends electricity crisis to special committee *Kurdish MPs want Iraq-U.S. draft deal altered, fearing attack *Elections law debate postponed *Ethnic tensions expanded, explained *Much [...]
New security for Iraq’s most important city … Kirkuk vote delayed … New oil tankers, Syria pipeline … 5M Iraq orphans …
Basra’s Changing Hands Iraq’s oil capital, Basra, is now officially under control of Iraqi forces. The British have "controlled" the area since 2003. Control is relative, however, since under British occupation Iraq’s main rivalries have been allowed to foster competing militia violence and, along with other armed groups and gangs, turn the oil and fuels [...]
