Wikileaks: Bid Rounds & Contracts

AFTER INITIALING OIL CONTRACTS, IRAQ DEMANDS CHANGES OIL MINISTER TO CHANGE SIGNING BONUSES FOR 2009 FIRST BID ROUND CONTRACTS CHEVRON ON IOC INVESTING IN IRAQ RUMAILA OIL-FIELD LAWSUIT CONTINUES BUT SUCCESS UNLIKELY FORMER OIL MINISTER AND COR CANDIDATE WEIGHS IN ON DE-BA’ATHIFICATION, OIL, AND EDUCATION BASRA: LOCAL DISSATISFACTION GROWS IN FINAL RUN-UP TO FIRST OIL BID ROUND IRAQ’S OIL BID ROUND 2: U.S. FIRMS’ PARTICIPATION IRAQ’S FIRST OIL BID ROUND…

Iraqi Opposition Threatens to Annul Contracts

18 December 2002 Iraqi opposition exiles on Tuesday unveiled the results of a three-day confab in London, having agreed to set up a 65-member coordinating committee to follow up on principles and proposals agreed at the conference, and adopted in a main political statement and a document entitled the “transition period project.” The conference, attended by 350-plus delegates, focused on the roles of different groups and parties in a post-Saddam…

Iraq-Russia: What Now?

16 July 2001 Using its oil as both weapon and bribe, Iraq — thanks to Russia and some of its Arab neighbors — has thwarted US attempts to revamp the 11-year-old UN sanctions regime, and end Baghdad’s control over oil smuggling. For Washington, which launched the initiative in February as a cornerstone of its Mideast foreign policy, it’s back to the drawing board. A Russian “nyet” to the Anglo-American ideas…