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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: megimoo on April 16, 2008, 05:12:59 PM
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"Boooosh was after the Iraqi oil,I knew it,I knew it !/lib mode off ."
Iraq's Oil Ministry has approved 35 companies it will allow to bid for soon-to-be announced tenders to develop oil and gas fields. The largest oil companies in the world -- ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Conoco Phillips, Chevron -- all qualified, as did firms of a variety of sizes and nationalities. The announcement Monday on the ministry's Web site is a major move that could bring foreign oil companies en masse into Iraq since the third-largest oil sector in the world was nationalized three decades ago. It takes place as the ministry attempts to increase oil and gas production as a new...
http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Energy/Briefing/2008/04/14/iraq_qualifies_35_companies_for_oil_deals/6174/