Read more Iraq oil stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/887/iraq-oil.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:46:56 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73881/american-adviser-to-kurds-outed-as-oil-shareholder.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn influential American advocate for Iraqi Kurds, who helped successfully secure Kurdish control over new oil finds in northern Iraq in the country's constitution, stands to reap more than $100 million from the policy he shaped. Peter Galbraith, it turns out, received rights to an enormous oil stake in Kurdistan...http://www.newser.com/story/73881/american-adviser-to-kurds-outed-as-oil-shareholder.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 12 Nov 2009 9:15:18 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/63182/in-televised-auction-of-oil-contracts-iraq-plays-hardball.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Iraqi oil industry has been nationalized since 1972, but today the country is awarding the first contracts in decades to private petroleum companies—live on television. So far a joint bid by British Petroleum and a Chinese firm has won the first contract, for a 17 billion-barrel field in...http://www.newser.com/story/63182/in-televised-auction-of-oil-contracts-iraq-plays-hardball.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 30 Jun 2009 7:34:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62651/big-oil-drooling-over-iraq-contracts.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIraq is preparing to welcome back the foreign oil companies it ejected over 30 years ago, and the firms are giddy with anticipation, the Wall Street Journal reports. Contracts to revive production at neglected oil fields go up for auction next week, and competition is expected to be fierce. Oil...http://www.newser.com/story/62651/big-oil-drooling-over-iraq-contracts.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 24 Jun 2009 1:48:08 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39558/marines-try-to-wean-iraq-from-us-pocketbook.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAs Iraq becomes safer, the Marines have focused on the next challenge: weaning the country’s security forces off US financial and logistical support, USA Today reports. To spur the independence of the nascent Iraqi police, the Marines now refuse to refuel their vehicles, and it's gotten the Iraqis' attention. "Things...http://www.newser.com/story/39558/marines-try-to-wean-iraq-from-us-pocketbook.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 09 Oct 2008 13:11:26 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/37132/iraq-dumps-western-oil-deals.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIraq has scrubbed plans to award six coveted no-bid contracts to Western oil companies, the New York Times reports. Negotiations with the oil giants—including Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell, BP and others—dragged on for too long, said Iraq's foreign minister. The companies would have been unable to complete work...http://www.newser.com/story/37132/iraq-dumps-western-oil-deals.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 11 Sep 2008 3:04:32 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/36035/china-makes-3b-deal-to-develop-iraqi-oil.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagChina and Iraq have dusted off an oil deal that was in the works before the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, giving China the rights to develop the Ahdab field, reports the AP. The agreement—which has grown from an estimated $1.2 billion to $3 billion—was originally struck...http://www.newser.com/story/36035/china-makes-3b-deal-to-develop-iraqi-oil.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 28 Aug 2008 7:45:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/33445/iraq-needs-its-no-bid-oil-contracts.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagUS lawmakers have been raging against no-bid deals struck by foreign oil companies in Iraq—but impeding them would be pure folly, energy consultant Raad Alkadiri argues in the Washington Post . Most of these companies have already advised Iraq on its oil fields for free; Baghdad only sought to formalize...http://www.newser.com/story/33445/iraq-needs-its-no-bid-oil-contracts.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 26 Jul 2008 15:15:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/32003/would-be-oil-barons-venture-into-kurdistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagKurdistan, Iraq’s mostly autonomous northern region, is brimming with oil, but the big oil companies won’t touch it. The Kurdish government gladly hands out exploration contracts, but taking one invites the wrath of the central government in Baghdad. That’s left the forbidden fruit to “wildcatters,” old-fashioned, small-time oil explorers willing...http://www.newser.com/story/32003/would-be-oil-barons-venture-into-kurdistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 09 Jul 2008 15:50:54 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/31517/white-house-in-loop-on-troubling-iraq-oil-deal.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe State Department was fully aware that a Texas firm linked to President Bush planned to sign a controversial Kurdistan oil deal that undermined the Iraqi government, reports the New York Times . Documents released by a congressional committee yesterday reveal that Hunt Oil—run by a close associate of the...http://www.newser.com/story/31517/white-house-in-loop-on-troubling-iraq-oil-deal.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 03 Jul 2008 3:04:50 CDT