[BITList] Iraq Bans Security Firms on Oil Fields

[franka]

Not really sure Colin but most of the people I know on the drilling side 
who visit make around $2k a day plus expenses which personally would not 
be enough to get me into the god forsaken hole it was bad enough in the 
old days on the Dara
frank

On 3/22/2012 7:49 AM, x50type at cox.net wrote:
> Frank
> how much will a private security person make in iraq?
> ct
> *From:* franka <mailto:franka at iinet.net.au>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 21, 2012 6:34 PM
> *To:* undisclosed-recipients:
> *Subject:* [BITList] Iraq Bans Security Firms on Oil Fields
> Sounds more like Iran pulling the strings to me as they are the only 
> ones with anything to gain
> frank
>
>
> Iraq Bans Security Firms on Oil Fields
> UPI
> |
> Monday, March 19, 2012
>
> With U.S. forces gone from Iraq, Baghdad has banned foreign security 
> contractors, long abhorred by Iraqis, from the 12 major oil fields 
> being developed by international companies, mainly in the south.
>
> But the government may find that hard to enforce.
>
> these operatives were forced out of Iraq, it would leave the oil 
> fields and their widespread infrastructure, widely attacked during the 
> post-2003 invasion fighting, highly vulnerable to attack by insurgents.
>
> This at a time when Baghdad wants to quadruple production to around 12 
> million barrels per day from the current level of 3 million bpd. Iraq 
> cannot achieve this without the score of oil majors that have signed 
> 20-year production contracts with Baghdad since 2009. The government's 
> whole reconstruction program depends on oil revenues.
>
> Maliki appears to be seeking to set himself up as dictator controlling 
> a high centralized power structure. To achieve that he will need to 
> develop Iraq's vast energy wealth.
>
> And to do that, he'll need to keep the foreign oil companies sweet 
> because they're the ones providing the investment capital and the 
> advanced technologies that will make it happen.
>
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