* Repairs following storms in south and northern bomb successful
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*Maliki reportedly asks British for energy help
*Parliamentarians displeased with Electricity Minister
*Iraq preps record budget for 2009
*Cholera epidemic spreads
*Reidar Visser on the Democratic Party’s Iraq plan
Iraq has resumed oil exports following a storm that shut in the southern port of Basra and the completion of repairs to the bomb-damaged northern pipeline that carries crude from the northern Kirkuk fi…
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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…
Influential former Pentagon official Richard Perle has been exploring going into the oil business in Iraq and Kazakhstan, write Susan Schmidt and Glenn R. Simpson for The Wall Street Journal.
Perle, one of a group of security experts who began pushing the case for toppling Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein about a decade ago, has been discussing a possible deal with officials of northern Iraq’s Kurdistan regional government, including its Washington envoy, according to these people and the docum…
The State Department’s inspector general is investigating Iraqi oil contracts after four Democratic senators complained that department employees may have encouraged lucrative oil deals between Iraq and several Western companies, Christine Simmons writes for the AP.
Any backstage meddling would have violated Bush administration policy, which has been to discourage such deals until Baghdad passes a law that will fairly divide the nation’s oil resources among the various provinces.
Reports tha…
Dr. Mahmoud Othman, a lawmaker with the Kurdistan block in the federal Parliament in Baghdad, has denied statements attributed to him by the press saying that the Kurdistan Regional Government’s oil contracts are illegal, the KRG said in a press statement.
Dr. Othman has requested the Kurdistan Regional Government issue a statement on his behalf clarifying that he was misquoted in his comments on proposed Federal Oil Ministry contracts and existing KRG contracts.
Iraqi Finance Minister Ba…
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.
The head of Iraq’s Oil Exploration Company is looking to partner with foreign firms to play a major role in the country’s oil development.
