Thamir Al-Ghadban: Iraq Upstream Oil Industry, The Next Legislative Challenge Speech to Iraq Future Energy conference – Istanbul Sept. 27, 2010
Tag: oil and gas law
KRG And The Oil & Gas Law
The draft oil and gas law has been with the Council of Representatives since 2007 and was followed later by the INOC draft law. There were several reasons behind the legislative stalemate, but the main one is the request of the Kurdish parliamentary block to postpone the debate on oil legislation until an accord is reached regarding the pending issues in the oil and gas law. The main pending issues…
Thamir Al-Ghadhban
Thamir al-Ghadhban, former Iraqi Minister of Oil and Chairman of the Advisory Commission at the Prime Minister’s office, gives his take on the latest developments in Iraq’s oil sector and analyses future trends in an interview in Baghdad with Ruba Husari. Q: How do you expect a new government following the March 7 legislative elections to deal with the signed contracts? Is there a risk that the legality of those…
Iraqi National Oil Co (INOC) – An Historical & Political Perspective
Mees Op-Ed – Sept.21,2009