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Iraq Opening to BP, Exxon Mobil, Shell for First Time Since 1972
Iraq Opening to BP, Exxon Mobil, Shell for First Time Since 1972
By Anthony DiPaola and Daniel Williams | Bloomberg
BP Plc and Exxon Mobil Corp. took the best deal they could get in Iraq last year when they won the largest oil contracts since Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003. Oil companies may wait a long time to get a better one.
Parliamentary elections may produce a weak or unstable government incapable of tendering new oil contracts, said Samuel Ciszuk, a London-based analyst at IHS Global Insight. He said he does expect the 10 technical-services contracts won by Exxon, BP and 20 other companies to be honored.
“One thing that’s fairly certain is there won’t be a strong coalition, so it may take time for the next government to get its act together,” Ciszuk said in a telephone interview. “Bottlenecks could hold up production increases” if no government forms by June.
Western producers haven’t had access to oil fields in southern Iraq since 1972, when the country nationalized production including concessions owned by the companies now known as BP, Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Exxon.
The contracts awarded in two auctions, which pay a per- barrel fee for development work rather than granting a share in the production itself, will cost the companies a total of about $100 billion to develop deposits, Oil Minister Hussain al- Shahristani said in December. Iraq, with the world’s third- largest oil reserves, will earn about $200 billion a year. Read more.
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All thanks to folks like Paul Hamill of "Dodgy Dossier" fame . . .
. . . INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES don't go unrewarded . . . obviously, kidz . . .
. . . when you're on TEAM ZION!!! . . . ;-)
(clipped headline and article from U.K. Daily Mail)
"Dodgy dossier aide now the £100,000 boss of White House lobbying firm - The man who wrote the infamous ‘dodgy dossier’ for Tony Blair about Saddam Hussein’s weapons is now a £100,000-a-year adviser working at the nerve centre of Barack Obama’s military and foreign policy establishment. . . .
. . . Despite the scandal, former Ministry of Defence civil servant Paul Hamill is now Director of Government Services at Hill & Knowlton, America’s most influential lobbying firm."
(full story)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1256042/Dodgy-dossier-aide-100k-...
Ah, nice . . .I try to hold the NSA and the TelCos to THE RULE OF LAW . . . and end up living out of my car for two years in a tent . . .
. . . but a loyal subject of the British Crown who's Machiavellian Machinations resulted in the deaths of over a MILLION INNOCENT PEOPLE finds a "posh" place in the BushCo/ObamaCo Global War Machine . . . ;-)
Here's a bit more about this "six figures" WAR CRIMINAL, kidz . . . ;-)
(clipped headline and article)
"The key backroom players - Paul Hamill
Who? He was a member of the Coalition Information Centre (CIC), a special propaganda outfit set up by Alastair Campbell to promote the Government's case for war with Iraq.
But days before Tony Blair promised to help with two parliamentary inquiries into the dossiers, he was posted to Baghdad to act as a press officer for the reconstruction effort. At the time the dossier was produced he was on secondment from the Foreign Office, described as 'director of story development'."
(full story)
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-5475182-the-key-backroom-play...
And where is this WAR CRIMINAL landing? . . .
. . . None other than the very same "PUBLIC RELATIONS" Firm that gave us that other "War Time Hit" . . . That "Golden Oldie" from Daddy Bush's "Operation Desert Storm" . . .
"Nurse Nayirah & The Incubator Babies BIG LIE"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv28_q98Xe8
That' right, kidz . . . good ol' "Global WAR PROPAGANDA Firm" Hill & Knowlton . ..
"Hill & Knowlton"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_&_Knowlton
Anyone want to wager a nickel on whether or not Rahm "Mega MOSSAD" will end up there if/when he is forced from the White House? . . . ;-)
After all, he is, like Paul "Dodgy Dossier" Hamill is a very "creative" individual . . . that doesn't let LAW or ETHICS get in the way of the "job at hand" . . . ;-)
"If you really like it you can have the rights,
It could make a million for you overnight.
If you must return it, you can send it here
But I need a break and I want to be a paperback writer,
Paperback writer."
- "Paperback Writer" by The Beatles
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