Iraq invites international oil companies to expand oil industry

[sabra]

Source: Voice of Iraq

Baghdad, Jan 2, (VOI) - Oil Ministry on Wednesday invited international oil companies willing to work in Iraq to submit their papers, provided that they were officially registered in the country’s concerned offices, a ministry spokesman said.

“Contracts and licensing directory in Oil Ministry on Wednesday called on all qualified and well-known international companies to submit their applications to work in Iraq,” Assem Jihad, from the Oil Ministry, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
Jihad considered “the registry of companies in Iraq as a standard condition.”

He added “Companies have to fill in application forms and submit the documents before the end of January 2008.”
“A committee will be established to review all applications, and the names of winning companies will be announced in a press conference later,” the spokesman pointed out.




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[acmavm]

1. Does he have Dick's permission for this?

[Amonester]

5. Mr. Jihad... (his real name?)

probably got an "order" from the PNAC's "godfather." :puke:

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. Shouldn't the lede actually be...

"The Oil Ministry, a puppet of the US government which itself is a puppet of American oil companies, on Wednesday invited international oil companies...."

(Definition of lede, in case anyone is interested.)

[ConcernedCanuk]

6. Interesting:

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"Deliberate journalistic alteration of lead, to avoid confusion with the lead used in hot-lead typesetting"

back to the topic of Iraq and the OIL Ministry -

Wanna bet that the USA's Korprate buddies are not on the top of the list?

Iraq is on another continent just in case the USA Korprate managers haven't noticed - Iraq may well favor Russia and China et al long before USA interests -

let's wait and see

[rodeodance]

9. good lede

[Supersedeas]

3. If they were really interested in competition -- why arbitrarily set a less than one month deadline

[LeftHander]

4. I guess the raping is finished...

Now comes the pillaging part...

[goforit]

7. ROFLMAO!!!! Why thank you Iraq!!!

[rockybelt]

8. If all this wasn't so goddamned tragic

it would be laughable. This ploy will keep the Kurds from making their own oild deal as far as the puppet Iraq govt. will be concerned.