The long wait may finally be over to claim the last great prize left for the oil industry.
But not, importantly, how the oil industry, or the Bush administration wanted it to.
Some 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power, four Western oil companies are in the final stages […]

Kurdistan’s Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani has confirmed that discussions with Baghdad over Iraq’s controversial oil law would continue within two weeks.
“We will be traveling to Baghdad to start negotiations on the oil law in two weeks. It’s important that we agree on the law otherwise foreign companies won’t come to invest in our region.”

Maybe those people who gave the green light to invade Iraq really did have a crystal ball. Maybe five years ago they could have foreseen record energy prices and a frenzy about oil supply and demand.
Because amidst all the panic about dwindling supply, one country has actually increased production. Iraq has raised oil exports to […]

As the world rapidly runs out of oil, one place seems to be swimming in the stuff, and no prizes for guessing who that is …
Iraq has dramatically increased the official size of its oil reserves after new data suggested that they could exceed Saudi Arabia’s and be the largest in the world.

Anyone with time on their hands and a conscience in their heart should head down to Shell’s AGM tomorrow, to join the Corporate Pirates, listen to music from The Carbon Town Crier or comedy from Hands ON Iraqi Oil.
Go and show solidarity with the people of Rossport Ireland, Nigeria, Canada and beyond, who are fighting […]