The battle over Iraq's controversial oil law is heating up. The country's Oil Ministry has directed all its agencies and departments not to deal with the country's oil unions, who are leading the battle against the law. The unions went...
Marathon Oil made news earlier this week when it was announced that it was buying Calgary-based Western Oil Sands, to move into Canadian oil sands. The company is again in the news, this time for paying a $1 million fine...
At last some good news from Baghdad. The Iraqi parliament has gone into summer recess without passing Iraq’s controversial and flawed oil law. Bush must be irritated, since passage of the law was billed as a "benchmark" in its battle...
Lukoil and other Russian companies will compete 'on equal terms' for Iraqi government contracts to develop the nation's vast oil fields, Iraqi oil minister Hussain al-Shahristani has said. "There will be no privileges for any country or any company", Shahristani...
Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani said yesterday that the country hopes to offer tenders on certain oil fields as early as September for its oilfields, but this can happen only after the controversial oil law is passed. Speaking in Moscow,...
Two stories on the impact of oil on marine mammals with environmental and Indigenous groups fighting back against the oil industry. Two environmental groups have accused the British Government of covertly sponsoring Royal Dutch Shell's Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project...
Here is another sign of China’s growing influence and activity in Africa. China's biggest oil company CNPC has reached a deal with Sudan to search for oil and gas in the north of the country on the coast of the...
Six Nobel Peace Prize laureates have released a statement in opposition to the proposed controversial Iraqi oil law, that some observers believe could go before Parliament as early as this week. The laureates include Betty Williams, Mairead Maguire, Rigoberta Menchu,...
Oil giant Exxon is being sued by the New York attorney general's office who claims that the company did not clean up 17 million gallons of spilled oil in Brooklyn over the past century. This amounts to some 7 million...
Nigeria's Community Research and Development Centre (CREDC) has released a study on the impacts of climate change in the Niger Delta and the adaptation strategies that the people of the Niger Delta are using to deal with growing problems. The...
