Exclusive: Iraq’s two oil laws

Iraq Oil Report publishes the full English texts of the two competing oil laws drafted by the Cabinet and the Parliament.
Exclusive: Iraq’s two oil laws
Hussain al-Shahristani (left), the deputy prime minister for energy and former oil minister, gives a press conference with Adnan al-Janabi, the chairman of the Parliament's oil and energy committee, in February 2011. The two men have spearheaded two competing versions of a law that would give definitive structure to Iraq's oil sector. (BEN VAN HEUVELEN/Iraq Oil Report)
By Ben Lando and Staff of Iraq Oil Report
Published Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Over the past five years, the single most controversial piece of Iraqi legislation has been a bill governing the oil sector.

It would lead to a reorganization of the oil sector and, depending on the quality of the bill itself, could lead Iraq toward a more modern and technically sound strategy for oil development and revenue management.

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