Oil and War in Iraq: External Links

The following are External Links related to Oil and War in Iraq.

Chronologies, Timelines, Maps & Data

• "Country Analysis: Iraq," Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections, November 13, 2002.
• "Gas & Oil Prices - A Chronology. 1970-August 2000," National Public Radio.
• Independent Inquiry Committee in The United Nations Oil-For-Food Programme, Tables Published on October 21, 2004 (300-page pdf file), Fox News.
• Iraq Energy Chronology 1980-2004 and Iraq Country Analysis, Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy.
• Iraq Pipeline Watch: "Attacks on Iraqi pipelines, oil installations, and oil personnel" June 12, 2003 to current, IAGS Energy Security website.
• Iraq Timeline 2000-2004.
• Map of Oil Corridor - Iraq/Iran, rumormillnews.
• Maps & Charts of Iraqi Oilfields, Judicial Watch.
• "Timeline: Bush, Iraq and $3 Trillion Worth of Oil," The American Assembler website.

Articles & Commentary

• "'Big Oil.' What Really Happened?," Diosa.net. Articles dating from 1996.
• Oil in Iraq, Global Policy Forum.
• Graham Phillips, "Oil Connections to War," University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2003.
• Petropolitics: Oil and War in Iraq. Links to articles.
• George Draffan, comp., Oil War News, endgame.org.
• "Iraq holds more than 112 billion barrels of oil," RussianOil.ru.

1997

• Caspian Watch # 5: Senator Byrd Takes the Lead in Securing U.S. Access To 200 Billion Barrels of Oil in the Caspian Sea, Center for Security Policy, February 1997.

"This conference, sponsored by the US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce (USACC), involved some 300 participants, including in addition to Senator Robert Byrd: former Secretary of Defense Richard Bruce Dick Cheney, former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard N. Perle, former Deputy Energy Secretary William White, U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Richard Kauzlarich, Azerbaijan's Ambassador to the U.S. Hafiz Pashayev and the former U.S. mediator on the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict Ambassador John Maresca."

2001

• Adam Hamilton, "Saddam-ized: Iraqi Crude Oil," Zeal, January 12, 2001: "In early December [2000], Saddam Hussein of Iraq shut down 5% of the world's crude oil exports. As the oil supply shrank, oil prices crashed. This essay explores this anomalous event."
• Laurie Mylroie, "Kuwait and Saudi Arabia against Iraq," Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, February 2001.
• "Smart sanctions give oil firms more leeway in Iraq," Reuters, March 2, 2001: "Foreign oil companies are likely to gain more freedom to invest in Iraq's oil industry from so-called smart sanctions the U.S. and Britain are pushing to introduce."
• Abbas Alnasrawi, "Oil, Sanctions, Debt and the Future," Odious Debts, March 11, 2001.
• "Oil-Hungry U.S. Reconsiders Iraq," UPI, April 13, 2001.
• "Iraq suspends oil exports," BBC, June 2, 2001.
• "Iraq Cuts Off Oil", CBS/AP, June 4, 2001.
• "Iraq carries out oil threat," CNN, June 4, 2001: "Iraq has carried out its threat of halting most oil exports in retaliation for a change in the United Nations's oil-for-food programme."
• Colum Lynch, "Firm's Iraq Deals Greater Than Cheney Has Said," Washington Post, June 23, 2001.
• "Greasing The Machine: Bush, His Cabinet and their Oil Connections," Drillbits & Tailings, June 30, 2001.
• "Iraq to resume oil exports," CNN, July 6, 2001.
• "Iraq Grants Russian Oil Companies Priority in Future Contracts", rferl.org, July 28, 2001.
• Johnny Angel, "It's the Oil, Stupid," LA Weekly, October 8, 2001: "Eliminate the oil, and American presence in the Middle East ends; the resentment aimed at our land and our people also ends."
• "The USA and Iraq's oil," Arabic News, November 11, 2001: "The US imports of the Iraqi crude oil reached standard figures of 1.247 million barrels every day during last September. ... News reports quoted energy information of the US energy department as saying that this is the first time in which the Iraqi monthly oil shipment exceed one million barrel a day since the Gulf war ten years ago ..."
• "Why Iraq rejects 'smart' sanctions," CNN, November 29, 2001.
• Michael Dobbs, "Old Strategy on Iraq Sparks New Debate. Backers Say Plan Proven in Afghanistan," Washington Post, December 27, 2001.
• Julian Borger, "Plan resurfaces to target Saddam. Iraqi attack blueprint emerges," Guardian/UK, December 28, 2001.

2002

• Maggie Burns, "Big Oil: Saddam's Best Customers (And W's Best Donors)," The Progressive Populist, [2002].
• Miriam Pemberton, "War in Iraq: The Oil Factor," Foreign Policy In Focus, September 2002.
• Dan Morgan and David B. Ottaway, "In Iraqi War Scenario, Oil Is Key Issue. U.S. Drillers Eye Huge Petroleum Pool," Washington Post, September 15, 2002.
• Miriam Pemberton, "The economic costs of war with Iraq," Asia Times, September 17, 2002. "(Testimony before the US Congress, September 13. Republished with permission from Foreign Policy in Focus.)"
• Robert Collier, "Oil firms wait as Iraq crisis unfolds," SF Gate, September 29, 2002.
• Profile: Clark Turner, Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center, Casper, Wyoming: "Turner, Director of the Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center, in Casper, Wyoming, is one of a group of DOE employees that is part of an Interagency Task Force in Iraq. He is the Oil Ministry Advisory Team Leader for DOE and has been in the Pentagon, Kuwait or Iraq since the end of October, 2002."
• Neil Mackay, "Official: US oil at the heart of Iraq crisis," Sunday Herald, October 6, 2002.
• Bill Vann, "Wall Street/Washington insider spills the dirty secret of Iraq war. 'Getting control of that oil will make a vast difference'," wsws.org, October 16, 2002.
• Peter Beaumont and Faisal Islam, "Carve-up of oil riches begins. U.S. plans to ditch industry rivals and force end of Opec," Guardian/UK, November 3, 2002.
• Michael Renner, "Blood and Oil--Alternatives to War in Iraq," WorldWatch, November 26, 2002.
• Dilip Hiro, "Oil, Iraq and America," The Nation, December 16, 2002.

2003

• John Donnelly, Planning Underway to Manage Iraqi Oil, Boston Globe, January 26, 2003: "The Pentagon, which has many more planners working on the oil question than other parts of the government, will take over the role of protecting the oil facilities."
• Ralph Nader, "Oil War?," ZMag, February 4, 2003.
• Freddy Toh, "The numbers add up: Oil the factor for war on Iraq," MalaysiaKini.com, February 13, 2003.
• Ralph Nader, "The Oil Companies Driving Bush's War. Planning a Post-War Oil Bonanza," CounterPunch, February 17, 2003.
• Nick Beams, "Oil and the coming war against Iraq," wsws.org, February 19, 2003.
• Henry T. Azzam, "Oil price scenarios and the war on Iraq," Jordan Times, March 2, 2003.
• Dale Allen Pfeiffer, "U.S. Intentions," From the Wilderness, March 7, 2003.
• Robert Dreyfuss, "The Thirty-Year Itch," Mother Jones, March/April 2003.
• Dan Brook, "Fueling the Empire. Oil War," CounterPunch, April 7, 2003.
• "In the Pipeline," PBS Online NewsHour, April 24, 2003: Margaret Warner interview with Christopher Flavin, president of the Worldwatch Institute; Amy Jaffe, president of AMJ Energy Consulting, and project coordinator for energy research at the James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University; and Falah Aljibury, an international petroleum consultant and analyst who advises the Iraqi oil industry.
• "Shell veteran wary of role in Iraqi oil," Los Angeles Times, May 16, 2003.
• Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele, "Iraq's Crude Awakening. It's only a trickle now, but it could become a gusher that rocks the world," Time, May 19, 2003.
• "Bush's Deep Reasons for War in Iraq: Oil, Petrodollars, and the OPEC EURO Question," ist-socrates.berkeley.edu, May 27, 2003; author unknown.
• George Wright, "Wolfowitz: Iraq War Was About Oil," CounterPunch, June 4, 2003. Article originally published by Guardian/UK, which has since removed it from its website.
• H. Josef Hebert, "Documents to Cheney's 2001 energy task force include details on Iraqi oil industry," SF Gate, July 18, 2003.
• Paul Sperry, White House energy task force papers reveal Iraqi oil maps. Judicial Watch lawsuit also uncovers list of 'foreign suitors' for contracts, WorldNetDaily, July 18, 2003: "The controversial White House energy task force two years ago reviewed Iraqi oil-field maps and 'foreign suitors for Iraqi oil-field contracts,' reveal documents turned over under court order to a government watchdog group by a member of the task force."
• David Ivanovich, "U.S. tallied up assets well before war. Documents list Cheney group's activities," Houston Chronicle, July 19, 2003.
• "IRAQ. Oil," Council on Foreign Relations, August 22, 2003 (updated).
• Ritt Goldstein, Cheney Energy Task Force Endorsed War for Oil. Documents reveal Bush Administration's goals for securing lower oil prices by 'shooting in the Middle East', Inter Press Service, September 12, 2003.
• Michael Hedges, "Houston oilman: Fixing Iraq to take time, money. Oil adviser near end of mission," Houston Chronicle, October 2, 2003.
• Jeff Gerth "Report Offered Bleak Outlook About Iraq Oil", New York Times, October 5, 2003.
• Carola Hoyos, "Iraq urged to decide on oil policy by year-end," Financial Times, October 20, 2003.
• "US delays 'hit Iraq oilfields'," BBC, November 18, 2003.
• "Iraqi oil close to pre-war levels," BBC, November 25, 2003.
• Khaled Yacoub Oweis, No Relief in Sight for Fuel-Starved Iraqis, Reuters, December 5, 2003.

2004

• Jack Kemp, "Natural sovereigns of Iraqi oil," Washington Times, January 1, 2004.
• David Teather, "US set to back state control of Iraqi oil," Guardian/UK, January 8, 2004.
• Dave Moniz and Peronet Despeignes, "O'Neill: Iraq planning came before 9/11," USA Today, January 12, 2004.
• "U.S. in No Rush to Privatize Iraq Oil," AP, January 29, 2004.
• Matthew B. Stannard and Verne Kopytoff, "Workers get oil to near prewar production. But sabotage nags at main source of export income," SF Gate, February 4, 2004.
• John Helmer, "Russian oil beats Bush to market," Asia Times, February 6, 2004.
• "Iraq watchdog presses US to name oil auditors," Reuters, February 13, 2004.
• Sergie Blagov, "Russia ready to take on the oil world," Asia Times, February 14, 2004.
• Neela Banerjee, "A Revival for Iraq's Oil Industry as Output Nears Prewar Levels," New York Times, March 1, 2004.
• "US hands out new Iraq oil deals," BBC, March 9, 2004: "The US military has awarded seven new contracts for supplying oil to Iraq, to replace a controversial deal with Vice-President Dick Cheney's former firm" Halliburton.
• Matt Moore, "Lukoil chief: prewar Iraq deal still valid," Boston Globe/AP, March 11, 2004.
• "Iraq seeks cooperation with Russia, amending oil agreements," Itar-Tass News Agency, March 24, 2004.
• Kanako Takahara, "Iraq looking for aid in oil, gas production," The Japan Times, March 25, 2004.
• "Blood For Oil: How Oil & Corporate Profits Drove The US Invasion Of Iraq," PressurePoint Investigative Report, April 1, 2004. Report is downloadable.
• Michael T. Klare, "Fighting for Oil--Still," The Nation, April 1, 2004.
• Gary Luft, "A crude threat," Baltimore Sun, April 6, 2004.
• Michael Klare, "US: Procuring the world's oil," Asia Times, April 27, 2004. (Posted with permission from Foreign Policy In Focus.)
• Terry Macalister, "BP ready to quit in blow to rebuilding hopes. Oil industry Chief executive cites security and political fears," Guardian/UK, April 29, 2004.
• Terry Macalister, "Shell hopes Iraq can help to plug oil leak," Guardian/UK, May 4, 2004.
• David R. Baker and Verne Kopytoff, "Iraq's oil industry recovering. Production returns to prewar levels despite continuing sabotage and attacks," SF Gate, May 9, 2004.
• "Iraq 'wants control of oil money'," BBC, May 18, 2004.
• Oliver Morgan, "Amec and Koreans in $1bn Iraq deal," Guardian/UK, May 23, 2004.
• Ahmed Janabi, "Iraqis fail to regain control of oil revenue," Al-Jazeera, June 1, 2004: "The latest Iraqi attempts to recover control of the country's oil revenues from the United States appear to have hit a dead end with a special delegation being rebuffed in its bid to secure UN help."
• Jim Lobe, "We fight, you pay: Costs of the Iraq war," Asia Times, June 25, 2004.
• "Oil prices fall on Iraq handover," BBC, June 28, 2004.
• Ehsan Ahrari, "Sovereignty: Now the games really begin," Asia Times, June 30, 2004.
• Sergei Blagov, "Russia scents oil," Asia Times, July 1, 2004.
• "Iraq oil deals 'by end of August'," BBC, July 9, 2004: "Iraq's interim government is expected to award the first three post-war oil production contracts by the end of August, industry sources say."
• Marshall Auerbach, "No pleasant surprises in the new oil order," Asia Times, July 20, 2004.
• "Iraq Delays Big Oil Deals," Reuters, July 15, 2004.
• Peter Greste, "Protecting Iraq's oil infrastructure," BBC, August 3, 2004.
• Pepe Escobar, "Oil's slippery slope," Asia Times, August 24, 2004.
• Sabri Zire al-Saadi, "Oil Revenues And The Foreign Exchange Regime In Iraq," Middle East Economic Survey, September 6, 2004.
• Youssef M. Ibrahim, "The world has lost Iraq's Oil," USA Today, October 5, 2004.
• Simon Romero & Scott Shane, "New Scrutiny of the Flow of Iraqi Oil to American Consumers,", New York Times, October 11, 2004.
• Clayton Hirst, "Iraq says 'come and get us' to Western oil companies" (abstract), The Independent/UK, October 17, 2004.
• Greg Palast, "Adventure Capitalism - The Hidden 2001 Plan to Carve-up Iraq," Tom Paine.Common Sense, October 26, 2004.
• Terry Macalister, "Shell loses out in contest to develop Iraq's Kirkuk oil field," Guardian/UK, November 25, 2004.
• Walid Khadduri, "The Iraqi Oil Industry: A Look Ahead," Middle East Economic Survey, November 29, 2004.
• Yayha Barazanji, "Iraq oil infrastructure losing billions due to insurgency, tribal feuds," CBC, December 1, 2004.
• "Iraq post-war oil contracts go to Turkey, Canada," Al-Jazeera, December 14, 2004.

2005

• Tony Wesolowsky, "When oil peaks ...," Asia Times, January 26, 2005.
• Antonia Juhasz, "Of Oil And Elections," AlterNet, January 27, 2005: "If all goes according to the Bush plan, American investors and companies will soon begin to own chunks of Iraq’s national oil company."
• Pepe Escobar, "Why the US will not leave Iraq," Asia Times, February 1, 2005.
• "Oil companies impatient for 'new Iraq',", UPI, February 7, 2005.
• "Iraqi Elites May Award Oil Contracts Before New Assembly Sits," The New Standard, February 8, 2005.
• Dan Milmo, "Firm plans to exploit Iraq's wasted gas," Guardian/UK, February 14, 2005.
• "Iraq's northern oil exports still halted," Al-Jazeera, February 17, 2005. [broken link].
• David Isenberg, "Bush's 'priceless' war," Asia Times, February 25, 2005.
• Jim Krane, "Iraq Oil: Sector still limping years after war," AP, March 16, 2005.
• Greg Palast, "Secret US plans for Iraq's oil," BBC's Newsnight, March 17, 2005.
• Emad Mekay, "Iraq as the world's biggest cash cow," Asia Times, March 19, 2005.
• Ian Rutledge, "US appears to have fought war for oil and lost it," Financial Times (UK), April 11, 2005.
• Howard LaFranchi, "Why Iraq oil money hasn't fueled rebuilding," Christian Science Monitor, July 14, 2005: "Smugglers and thieves are stealing profits from oil even as insurgents work to keep the nation unstable."
• Heather Wokusch, "Mission Accomplished: Big Oil's Occupation of Iraq," Common Dreams, December 2, 2005.

2006

• "Iraq discovers oil in Kurdistan," Agence France Presse (Petroleumworld), April 10, 2006: "the oil wells were drilled by a Norwegian company, DNO"
• Walter Pincus, "Corruption Cited in Iraq's Oil Industry," Washington Post, July 17, 2006.
• Antonia Juhasz, "Oil for Sale: Iraq Study Group Recommends Privatization," AlterNet, December 7, 2006. re Iraq Study Group report

2007

• Danny Fortson, Andrew Murray-Watson, and Tim Webb, "Future of Iraq: The spoils of war. How the West will make a killing on Iraqi oil riches," The Independent (UK), January 7, 2007.
• James Ridgeway, "Big Oil Wins Iraq's Petroleum Resources," MotherJones/MoJo Blog, January 8, 2007.
• "Iraqi officials fail yet again to reach compromise on draft oil law," Associated Press (International Herald Tribune), January 27, 2007.
• Kim Gamel, "Iraqis: Oil Law Won't Favor Americans," Associated Press (ABC News), January 27, 2007.
• "Chevron holds talks with Iraq to build facility," Contra Costa Times, January 27, 2007.
• James Glanz, "New oil find in Iraq gives hope to Sunni areas," International Herald Tribune, February 19, 2007.
• Ahmed Abdullah, "Western companies will officially control Iraq’s oil soon," thepeoplesvoice.org, February 21, 2007.
• Antonia Juhasz and Raed Jarrar, "Oil Grab in Iraq," Foreign Policy in Focus, February 22, 2007; TomPaine.com and CounterPunch, February 27, 2007; Asia Times, February 28, 2007.
• Saeed Shah, "Scramble for Iraq's oil begins as troops start to pull out," The Independent (UK) (Uruknet), February 23, 2007.
• Tim Webb, "Oil bonanza stays in Western sights after cosmetic change to Iraqi deals," The Independent (UK), February 25, 2007.
• Heather Stewart, "Iraq poised to hand control of oil fields to foreign firms. Baghdad under pressure from Britain to pass a law giving multinationals rights to the country's reserves," The Observer (UK), February 25, 2007.
• Claudia Parsons and Mariam Karouny, "Iraq cabinet endorses landmark draft oil law," Reuters (Washington Post), February 26, 2007.
• "Kurdistan Regional Government supports draft Federal Oil Law," Kurdistan Regional Government, February 26, 2007.
• "Allies pressure Iraq to hand over oil," The New Zealand Herald, February 26, 2007.
• Karen Fish, "Dick Cheney's New 911 Oscar Plot to Justify Nuking Iran," OpEdNews, February 26, 2007.
• Edward Wong, "Iraqis Reach an Accord on Oil Revenues," New York Times, February 27, 2007.
• Tom Regan, "Iraq drafts deal on oil riches. Legislation reached to divide oil wealth among Iraq's ethnic and sectarian divisions," Christian Science Monitor, February 27, 2007.
• Damien McElroy, "Iraq Opens Oil Reserves to Foreign Investors," The Daily Telegraph (New York Sun), February 27, 2007.
• J. Russell Tyldesley, Analysis: "21st Century Dominoes," Baltimore Chronicle, February 27, 2007: "The troops may not know what victory will look like, but I have an idea the administration knows what they are after and what it will look like. It will be an Iraq controlled by American corporations and American oil companies -- this was planned long before the invasion, as has been widely reported."
• Arnaud De Borchgrave, "Analysis: Iraq's Cincinnatus option," UPI, February 27, 2007.
• Andy McCarthy, "Iraqi Oil Revenue Accord ... and Beyond," The Corner/National Review Online, February 27, 2007.
• Pepe Escobar, "US's Iraq oil grab is a done deal," Asia Times, February 28, 2007.
• Ed Crooks, "Iraq may hold twice as much oil," Financial Times, April 18, 2007.
• James Glanz, "Billions in Oil Missing in Iraq, US Study Finds," New York Times (truthout), May 12, 2007.
• "Blood and oil: How the West will profit from Iraq's most precious commodity," The Independent (UK), May 14, 2007.
• Marcy Wheeler, "The Hunt for Oil," The Next Hurrah Blog, September 9, 2007. re Hunt Oil Company