Published
May 6, 2008,
6:20 pm in
Oil
Plus:
*John McCain and the confusion over war and oil
*Children at War — two looks by War News Radio and Alive in Baghdad
*Turkey, Iraq’s Kurds and the PKK
*Iraq Press Roundup
*Much, Much more…
Iraq’s Oil Ministry has extended the deadline for companies to submit plans to design and supply the equipment for pipelines to and from Iran. The April 24 deadline for bids was moved to May 18, the ministry announced on its Web site Tuesday, Ben Lando reports for United Press International. The State…
Published
April 9, 2008,
5:00 pm in
Oil
PLUS:
*Oil and the Basra battle
*The northern pipeline protector
*Power grid still a target
*Kirkuk deadline looms large
*Baquba violence increases
Iraq oil production decreased in March, along with OPEC as a whole, as Baghdad was pressed by Washington to spend more of its revenues, United Press International’s Ben Lando reports.
Oil flow has been steady at as much as 350,000 bpd according to Iraq’s Oil Ministry. Exports from the south have been around 1.6 million bpd. The rest is consumed dom…
Plus:
*Shell CEO confirms ready to help Iraq oil
*Who controls Iraq’s oil?
*Battles of Basra and oil
*Violence deaths up in Iraq
*Iraqis resent Green Zone
Lebanon’s top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah has issued a religious edict banning attacks on Iraq’s oil industry and other public infrastructure, Naharnet reports. Fadlallah also urged Iraqis on Monday to solve their problems through dialogue.
Royal Dutch Shell is ready to help Iraq boost oil production once that …
*But danger looms as workers can’t get to work
*Those at stations since Tuesday running out of supplies, food and sleep
*Basra violence threatens oil investment
*Recap of violence from Basra to Baghdad
*Port workers say military aims is to privatize
*Humanitarian aid desperately needed but unable to reach Basra
*KRG posts electricity tenders
Iraq oil flow cut by a pipeline bombing Thursday has returned, but continued fighting in Basra will soon take its toll.
“There’s a curfew in Basra so th…
Published
March 25, 2008,
3:15 pm in
Oil
Plus:
*Fighting in Basra, Iraq’s oil capital
*Oil flow not affected, ministry says
*Likely outcome troubling for violence and politics
*Chevron ready for Iraq deals
*Lukoil says West Qurna progress
*Workers poisoned at water plant needed for oil sector
*CS Monitor marks Five Years in Iraq
*Turkey vs. Kurds in … Basra?
*Iraq’s female detainees show deep problems
Iraq’s oil exports have increased in recent months, boosting state income, but overall oil production has dropped, according to O…
Published
March 20, 2008,
1:04 pm in
Oil
Plus:
*Electricity Ministry official assassinated
*Iraq, Oil and The Washington Post
*The Betrayal of Judge Radhi
*Basra police bust women assassin’s ring
*Kuwait to Iraq: debt relief for water
*Iraq Five Years of War: continuing coverage
*Much, much more…
Royal Dutch Shell has been quietly working with Iraq’s oil ministry over the past two years, advising it on how to increase the production of two oilfields, Roula Khalaf and Steve Negus write in an excellent Financial Times article.
Unde…
Published
March 14, 2008,
6:25 pm in
Politics
Iraq’s ambassador to the United States, Samir Sumaida’ie, began his welcome to the International Women’s Day celebration he was hosting this week not with the praises for his countrywomen, but with a moment of silence.
Guests packed into the embassy reception hall bowed their heads — some covered in the Muslim hijab, most not — “to remember what Iraqi women have endured and are enduring,” he said before dusting off a quick chronology of Iraqi women’s achievements: 1923, the first women’s mag…
Published
March 7, 2008,
5:56 pm in
Politics
Plus:
*KBR, owner of 2002 rebuild Iraq oil deal, shirks patriotic duty to pay taxes
*Gulf Keystone, partners, start KRG seismic
*Women’s Day in Iraq
*Iraq’s Three Civil Wars
*Iraq assessment to be kept private
*U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Crocker to resign
The head of the Senate Armed Services Committee wants U.S. auditors to investigate the Iraqi government’s spending on reconstruction as both U.S. and Iraqi funds in the rebuilding effort came under fire on Capitol Hill this week, Ben Lando re…
Published
March 6, 2008,
7:14 pm in
Oil
Plus:
*China-Iraq oil deals make progress
*Shahristani doubles today’s production for two-year goal
*Shahristani in Ankara for gas talks
*Wind power for water
*The Future of Kirkuk
*The Iraq Press Roundup
Iraq will wind up negotiations with five Big Oil firms later this month on key fields and soon announce the firms that qualify for an upcoming bidding round. Oil Ministry spokesman Assem Jihad also confirmed to United Press International’s Ben Lando via phone the country’s Council of Ministers…
Published
March 4, 2008,
6:32 pm in
Oil
Plus:
*Dana Gas ready to feed northern Iraq gas to Kurdish power plants
*Price of Baghdad black market fuel drops
*Iran-Iraq energy dealings during Ahmadinejad’s visit
*Spring is coming, but air conditioning is not
*Iraq Press Roundup
*Inside Iraqi Politics
Ireland’s Petrel Resources expects a production-sharing agreement for a deal it signed with Saddam Hussein for a block in Iraq’s western desert, United Press International reports. David Horgan, managing director of Petrel Resources, said …
