APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy articles from August 2007

APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy archives from August 2007

IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 18 - Kurdish Oil Law.
August 27, 2007... Officials of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) say their petroleum law, paving the way for foreign investment in their northern oil and gas fields, is irreversible. While a federal legislation remains stalled, they say their...

IRAQ - Exports Via Turkey.
August 27, 2007... During a visit to Damascus as part of a delegation headed by PM Nouri al-Maliki, Shahristani on Aug. 21 said Iraq was preparing to resume crude oil exports through Turkey in a few weeks through a new 500,000 b/d pipeline. He said crews had...

IRAQ - Dubai Conferences.(Conference news)
August 27, 2007... IOCs, including the world's majors, will descend on two key conferences about Iraqi oil in Dubai in September to jockey for position before the passing of the federal law sets off a scramble. Iraqi officials, including Oil Minister Shahristani,...

IRAQ - Why Iraqis Oppose US-Backed Oil Law.
August 27, 2007... Across the political spectrum in Washington, members of Congress are demanding that the Iraqi government meet certain benchmarks to show it is really in charge. But there is a big problem with the most important benchmark: the federal petroleum...

IRAQ - The Labour Movement.
August 27, 2007... Iraq has a long history in labour militancy. Union activists, banned and jailed under the British and the Hashemite monarchy, organised a labour movement which was the admiration of the Arab world when Iraq became independent after the...

IRAQ - Resource Nationalism Gets Global.
August 27, 2007... On the other hand, high oil prices since 1999 have fuelled resource nationalism on the global scale. This was spearheaded by Hugo Chavez, a populist radical who became president of Venezuela in 1999. Since then he has re-nationalised the...

IRAQ - Maliki In Damascus.
August 27, 2007... The delegation of visiting PM Maliki and their Syrian counterparts on Aug. 21 signed an agreement to bolster security along the two countries' porous 466-mile border, which US military officials say is the crossing point for most of the foreign...

IRAQ - Sadr Says The UK Is Leaving Defeated.(Muqtada al-Sadr)
August 27, 2007... There is the risk of the oil-rich south of Iraq falling into the hands of Shi'ite militias backed by the theocracy of Iran. The Independent on Aug. 20 published an interview with Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shi'ite cleric whose Jaysh al-Mahdi...

IRAQ - Sadr Denies Role In Slayings Of SIIC Governors.(Muqtada al-Sadr)(Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council of Iraq)(Brief article)
August 27, 2007... Sadr on Aug. 21 denied he had any involvement in the recent killings of two Shi'ite governors, assassinations seen as part of a brutal contest among rival Shi'ite militias to control parts of Iraq's main oil regions. The Iraqi police blamed JaM...

IRAQ - Hizbullah Trains Sadrists.
August 27, 2007... Hizbullah, a Shi'ite Lebanese guerrilla offshoot of the Iranian theocracy, is said to be training JaM forces in advanced warfare tactics. JaM members were on Aug. 20 quoted as saying they had received instruction from Hizbullah, which fought...

IRAQ - National Stress In Iraq.
August 27, 2007... The following is a piece by US columnist HDS Greenway published on Aug. 21 by The Boston Globe: "With the 60th anniversary of India and Pakistan's independence last week, I was reminded of Paul Scott's Raj Quartet, his epic tale of the last...