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It is difficult for any major oil company not to be in Iraq, Total's global exploration and production chief Yves-Louis Darricarrére told TIME last month. Despite intense negotiations, the French company was outbid by an alliance of Shell and Malaysia's Petronas for Iraq's giant Majnoon field. Total CEO Christophe de Margerie told TIME last Sunday that he had put in a fair bid, and that he doubted his competitors would make solid profits in ...

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16 hours ago ago from ChattahBox News Blog

(ChattahBox) - Iraq's National Security Council said today that Iran violated their shared border and seized an oil field.  Crude futures jumped up 2.2% following the news. Oil well #4, one of Iraq's largest in the al-Fakkah oil field lies in a disputed area along the two countries' southern border.  Iranian forces positioned tanks and dug trenches around the well and opened fire against the workers who fled the worksite with no casualties. ...

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19 hours ago ago from Musings On Iraq

Today, December 18, 2009, around ten Iranian border guards stormed oil well number four at the Fauqi oil field in Maysan , after some Iraqi workers started work there last week. Well number four is on the Iraqi side of the border, but the field straddles both countries. There is an unofficial agreement between the two that neither will work on the disputed parts of the Fauqi. According to a U.S. officer in southern Iraq however, the two ...

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By Matt Phillips Crude futures are up 2.2% following reports that Iranian troops crossed the Iraqi border and took control of an oil field in southeastern Iraq. An official of the state-owned South Oil Company in told Agence France Presse that Iranian forces took control of Well 4 in the Fauqa Field, part of a cluster of fields Iraq unsuccessfully put up for auction to oil majors in June. The field has estimated reserves of 1.55 million ...

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