2nd Bid Round Results

In response to Mr. I Chalabi’s comments, with all due respect I disagree with his remarks for the following reasons: There is certainly warranted rush to award all the fields included in both rounds, and more to come; a wider perspective on the role of oil in Iraq’s future is being lost. After years of misrule and total bad management coupled with the effects of sanctions, and the post-2003 violence,…

2nd Bid Round Results

There was certainly an unwarranted rush by the government to award all the fields included in both rounds totalling 27 although they could not get offers for some of the smaller ones and the reasons for Kirkuk and Bai Hassan are more related to Kurdish objections than anything else..I do not attribute that to the wish of Maliky to gain popular support for the elections as the absolute majority of…