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Deals to develop Iraq�s Zubair and West Qurna oilfields may not be on the agenda at the next meeting of the cabinet as there are still legal and technical issues to resolve, a government spokesman said on Saturday. Cabinet approval of a contract for...
Tags: Iraqi Oil Ministry, oil deals, Iraq, Baghdad, ExxonMobil, Eni, Mobil, Politics, Rockefeller family, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Economy of Alaska
The consortium is expected to increase the current production of about 1 million barrel per day (bpd) to 2.8 million bpd within the coming six years. Shahristani said in a speech that such contract opened "a new age" for Iraq oil production, emphasizing...
Tags: Iraqi, Rumaila, oil deals, million barrels, million bpd, CNPC, iraq signing, oil field, boost production, BP PLC
China is the first major deal with foreign firms to be signed since an international auction in June...Iraq has the world's third largest oil reserves, but production lags behind potential due to a lack of investment. The country's total daily output...
Tags: Iraqi Cabinet, Iraq Approves BP, China Focus, China Securities Regulatory Commission, oil deals, Rumaila, oil field, Xinhua, consortium led, rumaila field
Trade and oil played a part in the decision to include the Lockerbie bomber in a prisoner transfer deal, Jack Straw has admitted. Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, the UK justice secretary said trade was "a very big part" of the 2007 talks that led to...
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The Sunday Times reported that the Donen Commission, set up by Mbeki, found that Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, who was ANC secretary-general at the time, was privy to material information related to money paid illicitly to the Iraqi regime...The...
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China has thrown Kazakhstan an economic lifeline agreeing to lend the central Asian country $10bn and buy into a major oilfield. The agreements, signed during a five day visit by Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Kazakh president, to Beijing this week, underscores...
Tags: Kazakhstan, China, Kazakh State, Beijing, oil deals
Iraq has dubbed as "illegal" the contracts signed by Reliance Industries' for two oil blocks in Kurdistan saying companies signing oil deals with Kurdistan Regional Government cannot bid for lucrative oilfields contracts in Iraq...Foreign companies have...
Anti-poverty campaigners said the decision vindicated their argument that the bank’s support for big mining and oil deals often risked entrenching autocratic African governments rather than fulfilling its mandate to fight poverty
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China has secured access to rich Iraqi oil reserves as the country inks the first major foreign oil contract with the Iraqi government. Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani said on Tuesday that the cabinet has approved the three-billion-dollar deal...
Tags: iraq, Iraqi Parliament, China Petroleum National Corp., PetroChina, budget, 2009, Hussein al-Shahristani, oil field, Baghdad, oil deals
Last fall, after the deal was announced, the State Department said that it had tried to dissuade Hunt Oil from signing the contract with Kurdish regional authorities but that the company had proceeded "regardless of our advice." Although Hunt Oil's chief...
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