The Critical Battle for Iraq's Energy
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Saboteurs are stalling oil transports and causing costly power outages, crippling the country's increasingly unstable energy infrastructure.
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The power struggle between the Shiite coalition and prime minister Allawi may present tough choices for the U.S.
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International Oil Daily, 27 October 2004 - With oil prices at record highs, governments must accelerate technological innovations &quot;that radically alter how we produce and use energy&quot; to create a sustainable energy system, the International Energy Agency
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The government's record on delivering renewable energy is under attack.
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Few jobs are more thankless than running for a seat in the new government while struggling to keep the water, electricity and oil flowing in Iraq.
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Iraq holds its third major meeting of regional powers to discuss security issues and energy.
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Iraq has one of the world's largest oil reserves, but the Iraqi army can't get enough fuel for its tanks. It also can't get spare parts for its trucks or supply ammunition on its own.
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KIRKUK, Iraq -- Saboteurs wrecked a recently repaired pipeline junction yesterday and the fire set off a cascade of power blackouts that underlined the frustrations faced by US engineers trying to upgrade northern Iraq's creaky oil facilities in the face of relentless bombings.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 21 -- The money spent on one day of the Iraq war could buy homes for almost 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children, or could outfit 1.27 million homes with renewable electricity, according to the American Friends Service Committee, which displayed those statistics on la...
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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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Controlling growth in fuel consumption may become a strategic imperative for the West, as explosive demand growth in Asia threatens a damaging tussle for world supplies.
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BAGHDAD -- As the sun came up on election day, Jabbar Hussein Jabbar al-Rubaie drew the curtains to let in the light and fired up the kerosene heater, because, once again, the electricity was out.
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THE temptation for Iran is clear. Inflict pain on the Americans in Iraq in response to mounting US pressure over Tehran's nuclear programme.
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UNITED NATIONS -- More than four years after the fall of Baghdad, the United Nations is spending millions of dollars in Iraqi oil money to continue the hunt for Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction.
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Yesterday, former top US central banker Alan Greenspan, a very respected public official, said: "I'm saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows -- the Iraq war is largely about oil." Dale Bumpers, former US Senator from Arkansas, defended President Bill Clinton when he was on trial. He said, memorably: "H.L. Mencken said one time, 'When you hear somebody say, This is not about money, it's about money.' And when you hear somebody say, 'This is not about sex,' it's about sex." Bumpers might say today: When you hear somebody say the war in Iraq is not about oil, it's about oil. And Greenspan was absolutely right. Everyone knows that so many US trops and so much US money would not be deployed in Iraq if it weren't in the middle of the oil reserves of the world and if Iraq itself didn't have so much oil. It's ridiculous to argue otherwise. Yet, this admission is causing a major recalc in US political discourse. Had Greenspan said something so obviously true in 2003 or 2004, we might have avoided this national catastrophe. And I think this says more about us, and our desire to be misled, to have our lives simplified, to delegate our intellectual existence. Yes, our troops are there because of the oil. Don't doubt it. Postscript: The Bumpers speech is worth watching again, for its eloquence and simplicity. It wasn't so long ago that we rose to this level.
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The United States is getting ready now for the Iraqi government to get its house in order and pass a detailed law that will govern the future handling of its vast oil fields, which contain the world's third-largest proven petroleum reserves.
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BAGHDAD -- As if the daily struggle to dodge bullets and bombings is not enough, many Iraqis now face a freezing winter shivering by candlelight as persistent attacks keep the power out for more than 12 hours a day.