A refinery worker controls a valve on a pipeline at an oil refinery in Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, in this photo taken March 2007.
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"Securing the Peace: The Battle over Ethnicity and Energy in Modern Iraq"
Journal Article, Oil, Gas and Energy Law Intelligence
February 12, 2009
Author: Justin Dargin, Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: The Dubai Initiative
From the introduction: "This article examines the legal and political impediments to the Kurdish Regional Government's exploration and production contracts, which the central government in Baghdad has refused to recognize. The newly established Iraqi national constitution significantly opened as many petroleum-control questions as it resolved.
Negotiated in 2005, the constitution not only separated branches of government, but established Federalism as its lodestar. However, faced with unresolved issues over regional and national control over petroleum resources, international oil companies function in an ambiguous legal environment that fails to clearly distinguish between federal and regional powers"
See full text attached.
- Iraq oil and gas.pdf (911K PDF)
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