Articles tagged with: kurdistan
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Tuesday, 14 May, 2013
The fight for Iraqi oil is a story smugly told. Countless observers have remarked on the irony of Western firms’ withdrawal from southern Iraqi oil fields and the flurry of new contracts between Baghdad and Beijing, in what International Energy Agency chief economist Fatih Birol termed “the B–B axis.” Chinese producers from the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), and the China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec) have snatche...
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With a staggering USD 482.3 billion in total revenues for 2012, and a business presence in over two hundred countries, Exxon Mobil is the world’s second-largest oil and gas exploration company. Described in Steve Coll’s Private Empire as a “corporate state within the American state,” Exxon owns thirty-six oil refineries worldwide, with a capacity of some 6.2 million barrels per day, making it the world’s largest oil refiner.
Exxon is famous not only for its size, but also for it...
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Wednesday, 16 Jan, 2013
ERBIL, Asharq Al-Awsat—The leader of the Shi'a National Iraqi Alliance, Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, has recently taken steps with several Iraqi political forces and blocs in order to eas...
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Wednesday, 2 Jan, 2013
The tumultuous events of the past few months have left onlookers wondering just how natural gas has emerged as the Middle East’s latest rabble-rouser. Once spurned by convent...
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Tuesday, 18 Sep, 2012
hedef göstermek [heh-DEF geuh-stair-MEK] v. to denounce, to point the finger at; v. a means of informing the public favoured by the mainstream Turkish media, especially at tim...
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Thursday, 2 Aug, 2012
“Time here has speeded up: days have become hours, weeks have become days, months have become weeks, and if you have money...”
Makwan Jelil gestures at his businessman frie...
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Wednesday, 11 Jul, 2012
Massoud Barzani came into the world in unique circumstances. He was born on 16 August 1946 in the short-lived, Soviet-backed Mahabad Republic, a by-product of the British and S...
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Thursday, 17 May, 2012
It has long been speculated that oil can be a driver for civil conflict, and one needs to look no further for evidence than the sectarian power politics now playing out in Iraq...
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Thursday, 2 Feb, 2012
The Vice President of Iraq, Tareq Al-Hashemi, has been the focus of a political storm in Iraq for more than a month. Accusations—made by his political rivals—that Hashemi o...
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Saturday, 24 Dec, 2011
The current turmoil engulfing the government of Iraq has put on full display the political might and critical influence of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq. Freque...
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