APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy articles from August 2004

APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy archives from August 2004

IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 6B - The Mixed Signal.
August 16, 2004... There is so much confusion within Iraq and in the international oil market right now that people wonder how the Republican administration of George W. Bush will navigate through or out of a global mess it has caused. During the past week, as...

IRAQ - Price Could Fall.
August 16, 2004... Saudi Arabia is the only state in OPEC able to produce up to 1.8m b/d above its current output of 9.5m b/d. Russia is the only non-OPEC state which can produce 9.5m b/d and raise this by about 100,000 b/d before Nov. 2. But are they really keen...

IRAQ - Global Uncertainty.(Brief Article)
August 16, 2004... Iran's OPEC Governor Dr. Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, who advises his oil minister and heads a huge investment company, was on Aug. 9 quoted by the Tehran daily Hamshahri as saying fears about security of supply in the Middle East was prompting...

IRAQ - Lab For Dangerous Trends.
August 16, 2004... The blunders mentioned above have helped turn Iraq into a laboratory for all sorts of crime and of dangerous trends. Now Iraq is rich in highway bandits eager to loot anything and in booby traps of boulders. There are secessionists among the...

IRAQ - The Trap Of American Democracy.(Brief Article)
August 16, 2004... The main factor to the penetration of Iraq by these forces and trend-setters - long before a US-led invasion toppled Saddam's regime in April 2003 - was the way US democracy worked after 9/11. Mainly since early 2002, the US media and diplomats...

IRAQ - Iraqi Oil Being Partitioned.
August 16, 2004... With foreign oil firms having won production sharing agreements (PSAs) in northern Iraq from the local Kurdish governments, pro-Sadr Shiite leaders in the southern provinces of Basra, Zi Qar (Nassiriyah) and Misan (on the Iranian border north...

IRAQ - The Interim Govt Performance.(Brief Article)
August 16, 2004... Seven weeks after the transfer of sovereignty, there is little sign of an end to the disorder. The interim government of Iyad Allawi is ratcheting up the pressure on insurgents and cracking down on crime. On Aug. 15, a three-day conference of...