Adviser worried about Iraqi oil deal
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A drafter of stalled Iraqi legislation to set ground rules for the country's oil policy said Tuesday "there is no sign of a compromise" that would lead to final approval by the parliament.
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THERE were fresh fears over petrol prices today after saboteurs attacked a number of pipelines in southern Iraq. The latest attacks add further pressure on petrol companies to raise prices at the pumps in order to protect their investment.
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Iraqi bureaucrats are so fearful and confused by anticorruption measures that they are afraid to sign off on contracts.
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Britain's weekend handover of Basra province will have a limited effect on security in Iraq's biggest oil region because rival Shiite warlords and local officials have been wielding the real power in the area.
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CALGARY, Alberta  - Iraq's oil ministry has called  for new bids to develop an oil field in the war-torn country, a  major setback for the Canadian company that appeared to have  won the contract, a top executive with the firm said on Friday.
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The Bush Administration faces a political decision over whether to renew the contract of the security firm protecting U.S. officials in Iraq
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A key probe into the U.N.  oil-for-food program in Iraq was sharply critical of U.N.  management and found that the U.N. official running the  operation had steered oil contracts to a particular firm.
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The status of Iraq&#39;s crucial oil exports was mired in confusion Tuesday, with government and industry officials giving contradictory statements
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With sentiment growing that Iraq's Prime Minister needs to be replaced, the potential successors inspire little confidence
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Amid US charges of Iran's hand in Iraq's instability, some counsel caution.
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An Iraqi government adviser on Thursday disputed a new U.S. report critical of the country's security forces, saying the independent assessment was unacceptable interference in internal affairs.
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Saudi Arabia on Wednesday said it had fired a security adviser who wrote in The Washington Post that the world's top oil exporter would intervene in Iraq once the United States withdraws troops.
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The oil deal signed between Hunt Oil and the government in Iraq's Kurdish region earlier this month has raised eyebrows, in no small part because it appears to undercut President Bush's hope that Iraq could draft national legislation to share revenue from the country's vast oil reserves. Making the...
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Iraq's parliament might take a week to start debating a landmark draft oil law, officials said on Wednesday, as complaints from Kurdish authorities and Sunni Arab politicians signaled its passage could be rocky.
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Amid speculation the French oil group Total could attempt a hostile takeover of rival Royal Dutch/Shell, remarks by a top Total executive and market analysts suggest the time is not right for such a move.
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Global oil prices should soon fall, partly because of expected supply increases from Iraq, the head of the Opec cartel forecast today.
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Â· Britain alarmed by critics in US administration Â· Ministers deny mission in southern Iraq has failed