Iraq: Differences over the oil service contractsnote

Reports from Baghdad suggest that the differences continue among the senior officials of the Iraqi Oil Ministry and state-owned South Oil Company (SOC) over the service contracts and the methods used to conclude bilateral contracts with the foreign oil and gas companies. The following 310-word newswire focuses on the issue and tells what the position of PM Nuri Al-Maliki is. It also tells how MP Jaber Khalifa Jaber, who acts as Reporter of the Iraqi Parliament’s Oil and Gas Committee, is approaching the issue too.