APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy articles from April 2008

APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy archives from April 2008

Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 26 - Iraq-Iran E&P Competition.
April 28, 2008... Iraq is competing with Iran in attracting international oil companies (IOC) to operate petroleum exploration and production (E&P) projects. This does not mean Iraqi E&P terms are better than those on offer in Iran. Both are influenced by...

The Global Economy.
April 28, 2008... The world now is divided into a paper economy, which is financial and driven by psychological factors with speculators motivated by quick profit, and a real economy with prices of physical goods and projects rising beyond the rule of supply and...

The Kuwait Conference.(Conference news)
April 28, 2008... Maliki subtly attacked Iran in his address to the April 22 Kuwait conference on Iraq attended by the country's neighbours including Iranian Foreign Minister Manushehr Mottaki and his counterparts from the six Arab Gulf Co-operation Council...

US Charges & Warnings.
April 28, 2008... The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm Michael Mullen on April 25 said he was "extremely concerned" about "the increasingly lethal and malign influence" by the Quds Force in aiding militants in Iraq, Afghanistan and the rest of the...

US & Israeli Moves Cause Iran-Syria Split.
April 28, 2008... On April 24, the Bush administration showed the US Congress photographs and video clips of Israel's Sept. 6, 2007, air raid destroying an alleged nuclear reactor in north-eastern Syria being built by North Korea. Then the White House accused...

Big Oct. Conference.
April 28, 2008... In the past few years, Iraq's petroleum sector has been featured in numerous conferences aimed at linking top government officials with the global energy industry, all of which have taken place outside Iraq. In October 2008, the Iraqi American...

Oil Export Income Up.
April 28, 2008... Oil Ministry figures on April 24 showed Iraq boosted its crude oil exports by 3.3m barrels in March over the previous month. Total crude oil exports in March stood at 59.4m barrels and grossed $5.64 bn, with an average price $95.02/b. February...

Sunni Bloc Returns To Cabinet.
April 28, 2008... The Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF), the largest Sunni Arab block in parliament known as Tawafuq, on April 24 said it had agreed to return to Maliki's cabinet after a nine-month boycott, citing a recently passed amnesty law and the government's...

Iran's E&P Offensive.
April 28, 2008... The theocracy in Tehran has launched a campaign to attract IOCs to its petroleum sector. But Tehran has so far achieved limited progress as only Asian firms have agreed to venture into an isolated country. Some Western companies have kept...

Petraeus' Rise To CentCom Post Lets Cheney Loose On Iran.(David Petraeus, Dick Cheney )
April 28, 2008... The recent nomination of Petraeus to be head of the Central Command (CentCom), in charge of the GME, ensures he will defend administration's policies on Iran and Iraq at least to the end of Bush's term and possibly even beyond. It gives VP...