WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- You can't have one without the other, but with many of Iraq's power plants shut and refineries stopped, Iraqis have neither fuel nor electricity.

BAGHDAD, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- An Iraq Oil Ministry spokesman says firms that deal with Kurds will be kept out, while a Kurdish parliamentarian calls for the minister's job.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Iraq's Oil Ministry said all companies interested in winning contracts need to register as Iraq moves closer to its first tenders of oil fields.

BAGHDAD, March 9 (UPI) -- Officials from the China National Petroleum Corp. are in Iraq trying to re-sign a major oil deal first signed with Saddam Hussein.

BAGHDAD, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Iraq's Oil Ministry said 138 people were killed in 186 attacks on its oil industry in 2005, costing the government $6.25 billion.