Topic: Ashti Hawrami

ERBIL, Iraq, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Kurdish President Massoud Barzani departed the region for Washington at the official invitation of U.S. President George Bush, officials said.

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The Iraqi Kurdish region denies reports that Norwegian firm DNO received the OK to begin exporting oil, prompting speculation of a broad political deal.

Iraqi oil and gas field bidding starts Monday; gas in Iraqi Kurdistan comes online; rumors of oil law deal as Barzani heads to Baghdad.

The oil and gas chief of Iraqi Kurdistan says the region will develop its natural gas resources to provide electricity to its residents and a planned industrial center, and in the future "export to the rest of Iraq."

Media reports from Seoul say a Korea National Oil Corp.-led consortium has signed oil contracts with Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government.

ERBIL, Iraq, June 30 (UPI) -- The contracts have not been published, but Ashti Hawrami, Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government natural resources minister, insists everything needed to know about what's in the dozens of contracts signed between the KRG and international oil companies is in the public domain.

South Korea secures Kurdish oil exploration rights; Canada's Talisman Energy signed Kurdish oil and gas deals; Kurdish energy deals stoke diplomatic dispute; Royal Dutch Shell eyeing Iraqi pipeline projects

BAGHDAD, June 17 (UPI) -- The Kirkuk oil field in northern Iraq could be producing 70,000 barrels more per day, but a dispute between Iraq's central and Kurdish regional governments has kept the needed equipment gathering dust.

The Iraqi central and Kurdish regional governments are ready to export; Iraq plans to finalize technical oil contracts by the end of June; Iraq in talks to unify oil fields with Kuwait and Iran; Iraqi crude could ease global economic woes, Indian minister says; Iraq renews 2006 oil deal with Jordan.

FAYSH KHABUR, Iraq, June 13 (UPI) -- The pipeline that could pump northern Iraqi oil for export is nearly complete but empty, ending for now in the soil near the borders with Syria and Turkey, on the side of a dirt road.