BAGHDAD: Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power.

Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP — the original partners in the Iraq Petroleum Company — along with Chevron and a number of smaller oil companies, are in talks with Iraq's Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service Iraq's largest fields, according to ministry officials, oil company officials and an American diplomat.


http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/...ica/19iraq.php

I hate seeing the obvious, I liked thinking he was removed because of WMD's.

Any right wingers please feel free to trump this.

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Good. We BETTER get something out of this mess.





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Don't the the Bushlickers know I said that.. they don't think this is about oil and get really upset when told otherwise.

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Did anyone notice this little paragraph on page two?

Remember boys and girls - It's not what you know, it's who you know.

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Who is this "we"? ...these are international corporations, If they can sell a barrel of oil to China for one penny more than to the US, they will.

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Which is still good for Western economies, no?

I hear ya....too bad WE arent the oil companies.

Obviously with the security and training now that the US had provided the Iraqis can pick the biggest and best oil companies to come in and bring thier programs into the 21st century. Maybe someday that will equate to lower oil prices.

One documented goal of the invasion ,as stated by Bush many times was security of the worlds ability to move oil.Well its still moving isnt it?

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if this war was for oil we would be reaping the benefits and the oil prices would be a lot lower. the gulf war which nobody has a problem with was about oil.

lavell12, YOU might not be reaping the benefits, but highest ever profits recorded in human history means the oil companies are doing just fine. Thanks for your concern tho.

So yeah sure thing, lavell12 "Oil has nothing to do with this". Now run along while the adults chat mmmkay.





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Absolutely, Liberty... It will buy us the time to gear up for alternative non-dino juice energy resources.
So look for something similar to Aramco to be set up for Iraq's oil industry.


*Aramco is acronym for Arabian American Oil Company. The state-owned oil company of Saudi Arabia that was set up by Americans in the 1930s, Aramco is the largest oil corporation in the world and the world's largest in terms of proven crude oil reserves and production. That gasoline you put in your car might be labelled Texaco or Shell or whatever.. Thats Aramco.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco

Iraq offers baseline proposal of post-war alliance with USA.

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Anything we do in the middle east has something to do with oil. I don't think there is anything wrong with that. We as a nation must act in our best interest. The war was not soley waged for this reason, but I'm sure it was a factor in the decision to go in.

Urrmmm... the French? Oookay.


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Total on verge of signing Iraq oil service contract

Tue Jul 1, 12:44 PM ET


MADRID (AFP) - French oil major Total is on the verge of signing a service contract in Iraq but does not expect to make major investments in the country this year, the firm's president said Tuesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080701...l_080701164442
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..meanwhile, from the only free iraqi tribe that managed to get their own act together:


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Iraqi Kurdistan criticises Baghdad's oil plans
Tue Jul 1, 4:44 AM ET



MADRID (AFP) - The minister of natural resources of Iraqi Kurdistan criticised the plans of the Iraqi government to award service contracts to foreign oil companies, in an interview published on Tuesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080701...ervicesconsult
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