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...
Shell and Exxon’s UK subsidiary Esso have put up their selected assets in the UK North Sea for sale, following depletion in reserves, high costs and obsolete facilities. The companies have also entered into exclusive negotiations with UK oil company...
China’s oil giant, PetroChina is planning to raise $6 billion in a listing of new shares in Shanghai, to finance oil exploration and overseas acquisitions. The company has also recently announced a couple of significant discoveries. Last month PetroChina, which...
