KUT, Iraq, March 6 (UPI) -- The governor of Iraq's Wasit province says he renegotiated a Saddam-era oil deal with the China National Petroleum Corp.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Negotiations are not taking place in Baghdad on the controversial oil law and other oil disputes, contrary to previous news accounts.

BAGHDAD, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Iraq's Kurdish oil leaders are in Baghdad to clear an impasse over oil control, though the national oil minister is reportedly not in town.

BAGHDAD, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Iraq's Kurds want to focus on reviving the country's oil law, but high-profile talks during a U.S. visit haven't forced progress as they hoped.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Iraqi Kurdistan's oil minister, Ashti Hawrami, begins his U.S. tour of political and business leaders from Washington to Texas a hot item with international oil companies, but with icy relations with his counterpart in Baghdad.

BAGHDAD, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Iraq’s fuel is coming under the control of politically connected militias as corruption seeps into the country’s oil sector.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Thamir Ghadhban has served in several political and technical capacities in Iraq’s oil sector. He’s been oil minister twice since 2003, has sat as a politician crafting Iraq’s constitution and is now Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s top energy adviser.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- The question is simple enough on the third and final day of a major Iraq energy conference where hundreds of hungry oil men and women broke bread with Iraq’s industry chiefs, politicians and technocrats: when will Baghdad set the ground rules for the international oil community’s long-awaited venture into the largest oil prize on earth?

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Iraq's citizens suffer from the August heat, little electricity and fuel. Death is seemingly around every corner, for them and U.S. troops. So the time may not be right for an oil law, especially the one the Bush administration wants.