Kamil Al-Mehaidy: KRG & Oil Ministry Contracts: A Comparison (in Arabic) كامل المهيدي: قراءة في عقود أقليم كردستان النفطية
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The BP Prize
Once again, the results of Iraq’s first bid round proved that access to Mideast oil comes at a premium to international oil companies. Call it an entry fee for securing a foot in this vast oil hub. The prize is the giant Rumaila fields which despite producing since 1954 for South Rumaila and 1972 for its northern extension, still carry a huge potential but not without challenges. Oil in place…
Iraq Watch – Legal Limbo
9 November 2008 In response to the controversy over whether the Iraqi oil ministry has the right to award oil field development contracts under its first bid round, former Oil Minister Thamir Ghadhban argued that the ministry relies on a 1987 law that placed the powers to sign contracts into the hands of the oil minister and on the fact that the 2005 Iraqi constitution does not require the legislature’s…