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Al-Ghad is publishing the bidding details of Iraq’s Oil. We are
publishing the bare figures without a translation, and with no comment.
These will be later.
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تفاصيل الجولة الاولى للتراخيص:-
 
 
1- حقل الرميلة
 
أ- الحد المستهدف للانتاج من قبل الحكومة العراقية 1,850,000 برميل/ يوم ، و الانتاج الحالي 900,000 برميل يوميا
ب- تدفع الحكومة 2$ لكل برميل يتجاوز الحد المستهدف .علما […]

Mr Hasan Jum’a Awwad, president of Oil Unions Federation in Iraq has written a letter (in Arabic) to the Iraqi Prime Minister, and to several leaders of Oil Unions in the world. The letter demanded immediate removal of the Iraqi Government’s ban on Iraqi oil workers’ rights to form their trade unions, which was originally […]

Shell - Ministry of Oil Secret Agreement (English)
Shahristani Agreement on Gas Investment
Al-Ghad is publishing the confidential text (in English), of an agreement signed by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil and Shell and a further document by Oil Minister, Hussain Shahristani, proposing surrendering South Iraq Gas to Shell. The Agreement is more important and far reaching […]

STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE FOR UNIFICATION OF THE TRADE UNIONS MOVEMENT IN THE SOUTH
We Call on All workers to Unite Their Struggle Against the Passing of the
Shameful Security Agreement
Mr Jum’a Awwad, the president of the Standing Committee for the Unification of the Trade Union Movements in South Iraq, issued a statement […]

Al-Ghad is publishing, below, this important document, both in Arabic and English, by the prominent Iraqi oil expert, Mr. Fouad Qasim Al Amir. The document was a paper prepared by Mr. Al Amir, to be read at the Iraqi Oil Seminar, scheduled to be held in Paris on 25 - 27, February 2008.
However, Mr […]

The Iraqi Communist Party-Central Leadership, Calls for National Unity to Defeat Partition & Ocupation

The Iraqi Communist Party (ICP-CL), in a statement on 30 September 2007, condemned US Senate’s motion to partition Iraq on sectarian and ethnic lines. The party called for national unity, and proposes to form a united front by pateriotic parties to oppose partition and put an end the occupation of the country. The statement said that Senator Biden’s motion has already backfired. It was condemned by the great majority of the Iraqi people and the political personalities, including high-ranking officials of the US installed government. Among those who opposed the US Senate motion are the two vice-presidents of the Iraq, and the representatives of 8 parties and organisations, represented in Iraq Parliament.

The Federation of Iraqi oil workers unions issued a statement replying to “vicious attacks” by hired writers who came to Iraq with occupiers, and who knew nothing of the difficult situation in the country and the dangerous conditions under which the Oil Workers Union carried the struggle to safeguard the oil installations against destruction and […]

Bush-linked Texas oil company signs major deal with Kurdish Region in disputed areas
The deal between the Bush-linked “Hunt Oil Company” and the Kurdish Regional Government has uncovered a major crisis between the Maliki Government and the US, according to well-informed sources. The sources disclosed to Al-Ghad that the terms of the deal are still secret, […]

Although reported elsewhere, Al-Ghad is publishing the full text of a letter from the Iraqi Oil Ministry forbidding all dealings with Iraqi unions. This serves as a historical testament of the slide towards to the days of worker repression as practised by the previous regime in Iraq.

No. 25/262/ 12774Date: 18/7/2007
The Ministry of Oil Administration and […]

The Iraqi government has submitted yet another Draft Oil Law (linked below) after the much trumpeted draft of the July 3rd, 2007 that was approved by the cabinet and supposedly passed to the parliament for endorsement as is. The new draft has introduced several amendments in its second chapter that droped the name of the […]