Whether it's indifference, apathy or just plain ignorance, I cannot call, but one thing's for certain: the media is missing the mark on Iraq. Some have argued that the media's liberal bias has distorted its lens, while others say the reason the media isn't properly covering the war is because of a pro-conservative leaning. Still others blame it on incompetence, claiming the media is not willing to dedicate adequate resources for proper coverage. And, of course, there is the issue of journalist safety in a country where no walking soul is safe from terrorists. Whatever the reason for the poor coverage, it is sad to say that the American public is not getting the media coverage on Iraq that we deserve! For example, why don't we hear about the huge profits the Iraqi government is receiving...
...Instead, the Iraqi oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani is playing the power game, ...
BAGHDAD A sharp drop in attacks on pipelines has enabled Iraq to increase oil exports from northern oil fields and profit from the rise in world energy prices, the country's oil minister said Friday. Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani said pipeline attacks fell from an average of 30 a month in 2007 to four last month. Most of the attacks had been in the north, where Sunni insurgents were active.
Oil-licensing round runs into trouble BAGHDAD -- Iraq's hopes for an oil-revenue fueled postwar recovery suffered a sharp blow Tuesday as the foreign oil companies it counted on to help develop its vast reserves greeted the country's first oil auction in more than 30 years with grumbles and just one deal. Roughly a year in the making, the foreign licensing round was touted by Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani as a key step to boosting Iraq's oil output to 4 million barrels per day and raking in cash. But the process has been criticized inside the country from the start, and it suffered a poor showing at the televised event. BAGHDAD - Not a single American soldier was in sight. Gone, too, were the American helicopters whose buzz has for years defined Baghdad.
Oil auction seen as a success BAGHDAD -- Iraq's oil minister, Hussain al-Shahristani, began counting the money Saturday even before the first wells were drilled, dubbing the country's second postwar oil auction a triumph even as international oil companies largely snubbed the most violent regions in the Middle East's last major oil bonanza. The two days of bidding produced deals on only seven of the 15 fields on offer. Of those, four were in the stable southern Shiite heartland while two in the north went to the only company that expressed interest: Angola's Sonogal. The last was in central Iraq, in a province where violence has remained low. BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces were tipped off to this week's suicide bombings in Baghdad just hours before the blasts killed 127 people, a Shiit...
BAGHDAD -- Iraq announced Monday that it was opening six key oil production fields to more than 30 foreign companies, while delaying an announcement on a series of no-bid consulting contracts with a handful of Western oil companies. Iraq's oil minister, Hussain al-Shahristani, speaking at a news conference here, said Iraq would begin taking bids later this year for longer-term contracts on six of its oil fields. Thirty-five foreign firms have qualified to participate. Winners would be announced in 2009, Shahristani said.
While the collapse of world market prices for oil has clearly worsened the outlook for Iraq's external accounts, the country is not facing any insuperable problems on this score. Iraq earned in 2008 about USD 60 billion from average exports of crude of 1.85 million bpd. In the non-oil sector, cheap imports from Iran have been putting pressure on local manufacturers. This has much to do with past efforts by the US to make sure that the Iraqi economy becomes a wide-open, globalized one. Neighboring Iran, however, is supporting its domestic industries with generous subventions and is protecting them with high tariffs. In the political arena, the latest round of elections in early February was significant not only because the outcome gave prime minister Nouri al-Maliki extra political heft ...
...Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani recently suggested for the first ti...
... Raza Gilani assumed the office of prime minister on 23 March 2008 and Asif Ali Zardari the presiden... ANP NWFP Minister for Information Sardar Hussain Babak declared, "They are defenders of our soil an...
... Islamic Iraqi Council (ISCI), Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Islamic Dawa Party, and the Kurd... strengthened last year by Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani's success in brokering almost a doz...
... ordered the arrest and execution of his minister of planning and protege, Adnan Hussein, for daring...He walks with a limp. Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani spent more than a decade in solitar...
...Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani said that the 11- member O...
ver las páginas en versión mobile | web
ver las páginas en versión mobile | web
© Copyright 2012, vLex. All Rights Reserved.
Contents in vLex United States
Explore vLex
For Professionals
For Partners
Company
Other interesting searches:
Frederik Hendrik | Ece, S.A. De C.V. | Royce Value Trust Inc. | Bank of Alma | Lisa Rücker | contabilidad financiera y administrativa | rescate al amanecer | Liquidita secondaria | deuda del estado peruano | equa riparazione esecuzione
