IRAQI TRANSITIONAL NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MEETS
Iraq's Parliament speaker Hajim al-Hassani (C) is seen sitting between Deputy Speakers Aref Taifour (R) and Hussain al-Shahristani (L) April 17, 2005 duringÊ the assembly session in the heavily fortified Green Zone area in Baghdad, Iraq. (UPI Photo/Wathiq Khuzaie/Pool)
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Washington had warned companies like Exxon Mobile that doing business in the Iraqi energy sector carries inherent political risk, the State Department said.
LONDON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- British companies are behind European counterparts in terms of investment in Iraq's burgeoning oil sector, contracts indicate.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Iraq expects the output of crude oil to increase by about 400,000 barrels of oil per day by early next year, the country's oil minister said.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani could leave his post for a new position under the prime minister, a top government official said.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Iraq holds more than 140 billion barrels of extractable oil, an increase of about 25 percent, the country's oil minister announced Monday.
BAGHDAD, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- A bilateral deal between Iraq and Turkey on an oil pipeline is a sign that energy ties between the two countries are expanding, a Turkish minister said.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The preliminary deals signed by Angola's state oil company, Sonangol, Wednesday to develop two small fields in the most dangerous part of Iraq constituted a major breakthrough for Baghdad's high-risk drive to attract international oil companies to help it restore its flagging fortunes and transform the global energy market.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- The Iraqi government said Saturday international oil companies received seven oil field contracts out of a possible 10.
BASRA, Iraq, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Political debate in the southern Iraqi city of Basra is focused not on parliamentary elections, but on the tenure of Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani.
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Iraq aims to bring international oil investors to another round of bidding by giving companies their first chance to operate national oil fields.
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