Iraq not bound by quota; struggling to reverse decline Plus: *Walid Khadduri on the return of Big Oil to Iraq *Iraq presidency council gives oil smuggling law OK *SOFA Update: English text and analysis *Labor Minister target of suicide bomb *Iraqis suffer for lack of basic services *The Mahdi Army bides its time *Much more [...]
Iraq oil output drops, bombs and storms blamed
Plus: *Oil Ministry to explain oil and gas bidding to companies in London next month *Karbala sees 13 power projects *Finance Ministry agrees to worker demands *Recap of weekend violence highlights troubled future *Artists transform the blast walls *Exploring Al-Qaida in Iraq and the Awakening’s fate *Much more A bomb blast on an oil pipeline [...]
- Iraqi and international oil firms’ talks on first post-war deals are moving along …
- Pentagon report: Iraq Oil Ministry spending a little more on capital budgets, ranks production and electricity too … New deals by 2008 for Iraq’s oil sector … Turkey’s invasion unfolds …
- Iraq oil production still up, but can it hold? … Basra residents not fans of Brits … Electricity targeted again by attackers … Investigating Iraq’s U.S. Inspector General
- U.S. firms wanted for power projects … China getting started … Security self-sufficiency … The worst is over?
- Iraqi Kurds announce SEVEN new oil deals to foreign firms, and FOUR to the new Kurdistan oil company
Maliki, oil and gas committee to meet on Iraq oil law
Draft version received in Parliament Sunday, kicked back to council of ministers for legal clarification Plus: *Japan envoy meets on Iraq oil *Chinese team expected in November *Industry Ministry workers demand pay promise *Reaction to U.S. attack on Syria-Iraq border *KBR accused of sticking U.S. taxpayers, shocking American workers in Iraq *Fallujah sewage project at [...]
- Showdown: Baghdad vs. Irbil … Iraqi Kurds’ Oil Prerogatives … and more ….
- Oil makes the politics go round … Iraq’s political situation further fracturing … Bush and Maliki, best friends forever …
- Shahristani on KRG deals … billions to boost production … Iraq gas for Nabucco … Electricity hunt
- Iraq says “No,” again, to Lukoil deal … Smuggling Iraq’s fortunes … The Turkish Invasion
- U.S. OK’s Saddam oil law for today’s oil deals
Security of Iraq oil expected to improve with Umm Qasr port revamp
Plus: *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 [...]
