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[Iraq Updates - Politics & Government] Dr Hawrami: Just and fair oil management ensures Iraq's unity ...: Dr Ashti Hawrami, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister for Natural Resources, on Tuesday said that the oil and gas sector must be managed .

[UpstreamOnline] Hawrami caught in the middle with DNO - Upstreamonline: An probe into the sale of a chunk of shares in Norwegian explorer DNO International to Turkey's Generl Enerji found that the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Natural Resources Minister, Ashti Hawrami, acted as middle man for the deal.

[Global News Blog Headlines] Iraq - Britain honors its 179 soldiers killed in Iraq (Reuters via ...: Ashti Hawrami, natural resources minister of the semiautonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, defended financial assistance made privately over the past year to two foreign companies ”¦ Three killed in explosion in western Iraq .

[PUK Media Central Office "PUKmedia"] PUKmedia :: English - Statement by KRG minister for Natural ...: "I am pleased to confirm that today, 10th May 2009, I have received two letters addressed to the Kurdistan Regional Government Ministry of Natural Resources in Erbil, issued by the Ministry of Oil in Baghdad, which states that export of oil from the Tawke and Taq-Taq oil fields in the Kurdistan Region should be expedited.

[KurdNet News ekurd.net] The debacle of DNO's share sale to Turkish Genel Enerji and the ...: The fallout has affected confidence in the licences granted or to be granted by KRG to the foreign oil companies, as it is evidence that the regions' administration have undermined due process and acted incompetently. Furthermore, the row has casted doubts on the future of a planned merger between Turkeys Genel and Heritage Oil which are two significant players in Kurdistan as well as negatively affecting shares in other oil companies operating in the Kurdish area like Keystone and the exception was Sterling Energy as its share rose last week after assigning an Egyptian company to start drilling in the Region.

[Pipeline Magazine] Kurdistan suspends DNO contract « Pipeline Magazine: Oslo-listed DNO International had had its production license temporarily suspended after a complex dispute between the Oslo Stock Exchange implicating the KRG energy chief to benefit in a deal between DNO and Turkish player Genel Enerji. Ashti Hawrami, the KRG’s minister of natural resources, complained in a letter to DNO Iraq’s directors that “unjustifiable and incalculable harm” had been done to the KRG’s reputation by “misleading and incomplete publications by the Oslo Stock Exchange” and by “deliberate false briefings appearing in the Norwegian newspapers.”

[PUK Media Central Office "PUKmedia"] PUKmedia :: English - Ashti Hawrami likely to be reappointed: "It is believed the Kurdish natural resources minister will stay in his position in the new government due to his expertise and efficiency that he showed over the past four years," a well-placed Kurdish politician said on condition of anonymity.

[KurdNet News ekurd.net] Iraqi MP wants reported purchase of oil shares by Kurdistan ...: The Kurdistan authorities said their reputation was “unjustifiably severely tarnished” in the wake of differences between the Norwegian company and the Oslo Stock Exchange regarding information about the sale of 44 million of DNO shares on October 1, 2008.DNO said it was ready to “take legal measures against the Oslo Stock Exchange which it believes has violated the rules of confidentiality by revealing the name of the shares buyer.

[FT Energy Source] FT.com | FT Energy Source | Kurdistan says will export oil from ...: On behalf of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the KRG Ministry of Natural Resources announces that crude oil exports shall commence officially on 1 June 2009 from the Tawke Field, at an initial rate of around 60,000 barrels per day. This follows the completion of all the metering instrumentation and the tie-in of the field pipeline with the Iraq-Turkey main export pipeline at the border town of Fishkhabur.

[Enterprise Resilience Management Blog] Enterprise Resilience Management Blog: Update on the Middle East's ...: The article notes that despite billions of dollars of investments, the Iraqi oil sector still produces about the same amount of crude as it did under the leadership of Saddam Hussein. For the Kurds to prosper, they need to develop sustainable working relationships with the governments of both Iraq and Turkey.

[Buzzle: What's the Buzz?] ICG Report, Turkey, Iraq, 'Kurdistan', and the Nefarious, Age-Old ...: The KRG signed a contract with Crescent Petroleum/Dana Gas of the UAE to lay pipelines to ferry gas from the Khormor field to power stations in Erbil and Suleimaniya. In October 2008, they announced they had started pumping gas at Khormor.

[Enterprise Resilience Management Blog] Enterprise Resilience Management Blog: Kurdistan Regional ...: And the central government indicated to them that it might rely on Hussein-era oil laws or offer service contracts if the new petroleum legislation is delayed, according to Kamal Field Aldasri, an economic adviser to the Iraqi government. Aldasri said recently that the central government wants help in finding ways to boost output at the 27 operating oil fields throughout Iraq, which are producing well below their potential.

[Energy Bulletin -] Peak oil - July 10 | Energy Bulletin: “I am not expecting to find another [giant oil field like] Kirkuk,” says Ashti Hawrami, Kurdistan’s plain-talking minister of natural resources. “But I think we will find a lot of fields that add up to Kirkuk.” If he’s right, Kurdistan’s three provinces could hold more than 25 billion barrels of crude.

[Iraq Dinar Speculation] Kurds get approval to export oil | Iraq Dinar Speculation: Kurdish Natural Resources Minister, Ashti Hawrami stated,. The revenue from this oil will go to the Iraqi People.

[A Moroccan About the world around him] Iraq And Kurdish Nationalism: After Sectarianism, Ethnocentrism ...: The Kurds’ pride in their heritage is unfortunately being corrupted into politicized ethnocentrism by the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), a convergence of the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), the two main Kurdish militant groups in Iraq. The KDP and the PUK have different political aspirations, but decided to unite on nationalist grounds to maximize on their alliance with the United States.

[Iraq Dinar Speculation] Iraq losing MILLIONS per day due to oil export bans | Iraq Dinar ...: Iraq is losing millions and millions of dollars a day. We lost several billion dollars last year by not exporting from Kurdistan, Ashti Hawrami….

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