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  • BP Chevron Total and other major oil firms seek new terms in Iraq

    Iraq are negotiating to revise their contracts with the government, as new production targets undermine the profitability of their operations. Iraq's government earlier this year revised down its national oil output targets to 9.5 million barrels per day (bpd) by 2020, up from about 3 million bpd today, as part of a new blueprint for the development of its energy sector. The new strategy ...

  • Iraq - Iraqi journalist threatened for reporting on corruption

    Iraqi authorities must launch an investigation into a May 14 episode in which a group of armed men raided the home of a journalist and briefly abducted his brother. The journalist, Azhar Shallal, had recently written about alleged corruption.The assailants, discovering Shallal was not home, kidnapped his brother and interrogated him for a few hours, news ...

  • BP to invest $2.85 billion in Iraqs largest oilfield

    BP.L ) has allocated $2.85 billion to develop Iraq's Rumaila oilfield in 2013, up from $2.2 billion last year, the head of the joint management committee for the field told Reuters On ...

  • BPs Investment in Iraq to Reach $5B by 2016

    ABU DHABI - U.K. oil major BP plc plans to increase the production capacity at the Rumaila oilfield, the largest in Iraq, by 750,000 barrels per day by 2017, and aims to increase its spending in the country to $5 billion a year from the current $2.6 billion by 2016, a senior executive said Wednesday. "We are doing about 1.4 million barrels a day now from RumailaWe have a plan to add ...

  • Iraqi premier orders army shake-up after attacks

    BAGHDAD -- Iraq's prime minister has ordered a shake-up of his military command after a weeklong spike of militant attacks that has killed nearly 300 people, by far the highest toll since the U.S. withdrew its forces in late 2011, an official said Wednesday.The shake-up will include commanders of divisions and operations, said Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Moussawi.It indicates the ...

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  • Iraqi spokesman PM orders shakeup among military commanders in wake of deadly attacks

    BAGHDAD - An Iraqi government spokesman says Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has ordered changes in senior ranks of the military in the wake of bloody attacks that have killed dozens of people in the past few days. Ali al-Moussawi said on Wednesday that the shakeup will include commanders of divisions and operation commands nationwide. Al-Moussawi would not give more details on the decree, which ...

  • Gunmen kill 12 at Baghdad brothel Officials

    gunmen shot dead at least seven women and five men at a brothel in Baghdad on Wednesday, security and medical officials said. The attack took place in the capital's eastern area of Zayouna, where a number ...

  • Iraq to assemble Iranian cars IKCO

    Samand Soren is a new family saloon created by Iran Khodro Industrial Group in 2007. Iranian carmaker Iran Khodro will establish an assembly line with the capacity of 30,000 units per year in the Iraqi city of Iskandariya by the next month.Preliminary agreements were made three years ago, IRNA quoted Iran Khodro deputy director for exports Abdol'azim Sa'dian as saying. Iran Khodro has ...

  • Baird Iraq could face civil war

    Ottawa - A spate of deadly violence risks plunging Iraq into a sectarian civil war, Canada's top diplomat warned on Tuesday, adding that a Canadian was among the latest ...

  • In Iraq pointing a finger at others will not help says paper

    WAM ABU DHABI: Pointing a finger at others will not help in Iraq as Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki says that it is a plot to destabilise the country and sow sectarian and ethnic discord, a local newspaper remarked today. "As far as objectivity is concerned, he is right," said the Khaleej Times in an editorial comment on the new trend of violence which is "a deja vu of 2006-07 ...

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