Three gas fields to be offered to foreign investors in Iraq's third auction of hydrocarbons assets since June 2009.
While overall violence in Iraq is at 2004 levels, there is an outstanding – and growing – risk to investors who will operate in a country that remains high in human rights abuses.
Iraq has had no takers on crude price and other discounts offered in a 2007 law aimed to get private investors to build new refineries.
Officials from CNPC and the Iraqi Army based in Missan province are looking to turn a military airstrip into a commercial and cargo hub. The project has received local support and the approval from the provincial governor.
Iraq aims to make push toward natural gas superpower with planned tender of three gas fields previously offered to and passed over by foreign firms.
Oil Ministry converts larger loan from Exxon and Eni to smaller non-refundable signing bonus. It also received funding from the government to start a fourth state oil company.
A rare occurrence in Dhi Qar as smugglers mask a tapping operation in a water treatment plant.
Court gives government and MP time to prepare response in case that could nullify BP and CNPC's contract to develop the Rumaila oil field.
Nearly a nuclear power plant's worth of private generators fill in for the struggling national electricity grid in Baghdad.
Negotiations on pay, hours and leadership break down once more, and unions call workers to withhold labour.
