tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post4359149613685238274..comments2024-03-16T08:04:53.086-05:00Comments on Dredd Blog: Iraq: World's Number One Oil Producer? - 8Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-66306121114368199402015-01-19T14:27:36.645-06:002015-01-19T14:27:36.645-06:00Iraq produced a record 4M barrels per day of crude...Iraq produced a record 4M barrels per day of crude oil in December 2014 <a href="http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/136808/Iraq_Produces_Record_4M_Barrels_per_Day_of_Crude_in_December" rel="nofollow">(link</a>).Randyhttp://peakoil.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-2390608601189895102012-07-14T10:37:40.822-05:002012-07-14T10:37:40.822-05:00"Negotions are under way for Exxon Mobile, Sh..."<i>Negotions are under way for Exxon Mobile, Shell, Total and BP -- the original partners decades ago in the Iraq Petroleum Company, now joined by Chevron and Other smaller oil companies -- to renew the oil concession they lost to nationalization during the years when the oil producers [Iraqis] took over their own resources. The no-bid contracts, apparently written by the oil corporations with the help of U.S. officials, prevailed over offers from more than forty other companies, including companies in China, India and Russia.<br /><br />'There was suspicion among many in the Arab world and among parts of the American public that the United States had gone to war in Iraq precisely to secure the oil wealth thesse contracts seek to extract," Andrew E. Kramer wrote in the New York Times.'</i>" <br /><br />(<i>Making The Future</i>, by Noam Chomsky, p.87)Randyhttp://www.peakoil.net/noreply@blogger.com