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Chevron Conoco Phillips BP is een twijfelgeval door zijn fusie met Arco.
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Al wie geintresseerd is in een doe-het-zelf 9mm machinepistool. Oftewel waarom vuurwapenwetten nooit gaan werken. Enkel voor educatieve doeleinden ![]() Stalin: "The only real power comes out of a long rifle." En hij verbood prompt alle particulier wapenbezit. Stalin was immers niet zo geïnteresseerd in democratie (waar het volk de macht bezit). |
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Irak zal zijn marges wel verhogen. ![]()
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Al wie geintresseerd is in een doe-het-zelf 9mm machinepistool. Oftewel waarom vuurwapenwetten nooit gaan werken. Enkel voor educatieve doeleinden ![]() Stalin: "The only real power comes out of a long rifle." En hij verbood prompt alle particulier wapenbezit. Stalin was immers niet zo geïnteresseerd in democratie (waar het volk de macht bezit). Laatst gewijzigd door Fallen Angel : 3 februari 2010 om 18:34. |
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"Those who claim that the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 to get control of the country's giant oil reserves will be left scratching their heads by the results of last weekend's auction of Iraqi oil contracts: Not a single U.S. company secured a deal in the auction of contracts that will shape the Iraqi oil industry for the next couple of decades. Two of the most lucrative of the multi-billion-dollar oil contracts went to two countries which bitterly opposed the U.S. invasion — Russia and China — while even Total Oil of France, which led the charge to deny international approval for the war at the U.N. Security Council in 2003, won a bigger stake than the Americans in the most recent auction. "[The distribution of oil contracts] certainly answers the theory that the war was for the benefit of big U.S. oil interests," says Alex Munton, Middle East oil analyst for the energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie, whose clients include major U.S. companies. "That has not been demonstrated by what has happened this week." (Read "The Reasons Behind Big Oil Declining Iraq's Riches") In one of the biggest auctions held anywhere in the 150-year history of the oil industry, executives from across the world flew into Baghdad on Dec. 11 for a two-day, red-carpet ceremony at the Oil Ministry, broadcast live in Iraq. With U.S. military helicopters hovering overhead to help ward off a possible insurgent attack, Oil Minister Hussein Al-Shahrastani unsealed envelopes from each company, stating how much oil it would produce, and what it was willing to accept in payment from Iraq's government. Rather than giving foreign oil companies control over Iraqi reserves, as the U.S. had hoped to do with the Oil Law it failed to get the Iraqi parliament to pass, the oil companies were awarded service contracts lasting 20 years for seven of the 10 oil fields on offer — the oil will remain the property of the Iraqi state, and the foreign companies will pump it for a fixed price per barrel. Far from behaving like the war-ravaged, bankrupt country that it is, Iraq heavily weighted the contracts in its own favor, demanding a low per-barrel price and signing bonuses of up to $150 million. Only one U.S. company, Occidental Petroleum Corp., joined the bidding last weekend, and lost. (ExxonMobil had hoped to land the lucrative Rumaila field, but lost out to an alliance between the Chinese National Petroleum Company and BP because it declined the Iraqi government's $2-a-barrel fee.) Russia's Lukoil, CNPC, and RoyalDutchShell accepted fees of between $1.15 and $1.40 for every barrel they produce — that's about 2% of Friday's oil futures price of $73 a barrel. "No one thinks it will be easy to make money on these contracts," says Samuel Ciszuk, Middle East energy analyst at IHS Global Insight, an economic forecasting company in London. "Companies have been willing to come in very, very low just to get their foot in the door in Iraq." Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...#ixzz0eUk20Wwk " Laatst gewijzigd door grievous : 3 februari 2010 om 18:31. |
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![]() De VS hadden er niet mee gerekend dat de Maliki regering een tweede ronde van oliecontracten zou organizeren maar konden deze slimme zet niet verhinderen. De olie waar de VS zo 'hard' voor gevochten had was nu voor anderen ook te koop door echt vrij opbod nog wel. Deze tegenslag heeft de VS echter niet haar strijd om de controle over de oliereserves van de wereld en daarmee samenhangend de toekomst van haar project om wereldhegemonie te bekomen, doen opgeven.
Escobar legt het uit in zijn kleurrijke stijl wat er gebeurde met die tweede ronde van contracten. Die tweede ronde wordt soms gebruikt om te pogen 'aan te tonen' dat de Irakoorlog niet om olie zou gaan ![]() Iraq's oil auction hits the jackpot Citaat:
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![]() Je hebt dus geen weet van de eerste ronde contracten die wel naar US firmas gingen.
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![]() Grappig dat je zelf het ultieme bewijs aangeeft. Ps: Deze gaat naar het quote-archief. ![]()
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Al wie geintresseerd is in een doe-het-zelf 9mm machinepistool. Oftewel waarom vuurwapenwetten nooit gaan werken. Enkel voor educatieve doeleinden ![]() Stalin: "The only real power comes out of a long rifle." En hij verbood prompt alle particulier wapenbezit. Stalin was immers niet zo geïnteresseerd in democratie (waar het volk de macht bezit). Laatst gewijzigd door Fallen Angel : 3 februari 2010 om 18:44. |
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Toch leuk dat die regering die door mannetjes als den bollen als een marionettenregering van de VS omschreven wordt, dit deed. ![]() Het ging nooit om de Iraakse olie.Speelde nooit een rol bij de beraadslagingen over de invasie. |
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Effectief heeft die regering die gij ongetwijfeld als een amerikaanse marionettenregering beschouwt het bewijs daarvan geleverd. En gij zijt op uw lelijke smikkel gevallen door te beweren dat de iraaakse regering maar een schijntje verdient terwijl het de oliefrima's zijn die niet veel zullen verdienen. ![]() |
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Al wie geintresseerd is in een doe-het-zelf 9mm machinepistool. Oftewel waarom vuurwapenwetten nooit gaan werken. Enkel voor educatieve doeleinden ![]() Stalin: "The only real power comes out of a long rifle." En hij verbood prompt alle particulier wapenbezit. Stalin was immers niet zo geïnteresseerd in democratie (waar het volk de macht bezit). Laatst gewijzigd door Fallen Angel : 3 februari 2010 om 19:01. |
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De andere contracten werden niet toegekend omdat de oliebedrijven niet laag genoeg boden.Vandaar de noodzaak van een tweede ronde.Den bollen op zijn bek. ![]() "(AP) Iraq's hopes for an oil-revenue fueled postwar recovery suffered a sharp blow Tuesday as the foreign oil companies it counted on to help develop its vast reserves greeted the country's first oil auction in over 30 years with grumbles and just one deal. Roughly a year in the making, the foreign licensing round was touted by Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani as a key step to boosting Iraq's oil output to 4 million barrels per day and raking in cash the government desperately needs after years of sanctions and the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 left its economy in shambles. But the process has been criticized inside the country from the start, and the poor showing at the televised event could offer opponents of the embattled al-Shahristani even more ammunition. It's the kind of political unrest that helped keep the companies at arms length, despite a shot at 43 billion of the country's 115 billion barrels of crude reserves. "With this outcome, the Iraqi government becomes the desperate one," said Samuel Ciszuk, Mideast energy analyst for London-based IHS Global Insight. "Al-Shahristani has been very focused on this round, and criticized for ignoring everything else, including the easy repairs that could have been done over the past couple of years." The televised event came as U.S. troops completed their withdrawal from Iraqi cities, handing over security of urban areas to their Iraqi counterparts. The development, hailed by Iraqis as a sovereignty milestone, likely served to only further raise questions among oil companies monitoring events around the country before committing to big projects. From the first field offered, disputes over how much the companies would get for producing over a minimum output target cast a pall on the process. Under the 20-year service contracts on offer, the companies would be paid a per barrel fee for any crude they produce in excess of a minimum production target. But the price requested by all the companies was at least twice as high - and in a couple of cases almost 10 times higher than what the oil ministry was willing to pay. Two oil executives from different companies at the auction complained that Iraq was offering too little money given the prevailing security risks and political uncertainty. They also complained that they were not given enough time to revise their bids - sometimes as little as 15 to 30 minutes. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. oil company behind Exxon Mobil Corp., said it decided not to submit a bid in the opening round, but didn't rule out doing so in future auctions. It said it opted out after a "careful evaluation of the opportunities against Chevron's standard investment criteria and our inventory of investment projects worldwide." The first field on offer was the day's sole success story. But also underlined the government and the companies' widely differing expectations. Two consortiums, headed by British giant BP and Exxon Mobil, submitted offers for the Rumaila oil field - the largest prize on offer with 17.8 billion barrels in crude reserves. The Exxon Mobil-led consortium, which included Malaysia's Petronas, requested $4.80 per barrel for production over the minimum, while BP wanted $3.99 per barrel. The ministry was willing to pay $2 per barrel. BP agreed to match the ministry's price and won the contract for Rumaila. Exxon Mobil, in a move mirrored by other companies throughout the day, refused to revise its bid. "Our numbers were not far from reality, and proof of that is that BP accepted our price for Rumaila," al-Shahristani said after the auction. He said he believed oil companies inflated their requests to cover security companies' fees. But dollars aside, interest was much thinner than Iraqi officials anticipated. "It's been nearly 40 years now that Iraq has failed to live up to its oil potential," said Daniel Yergin, a Pulitzer Prize winning author and chairman of IHS CERA, an energy consultancy. "It's not a foregone conclusion that these arrangements will, in themselves, do what needs to be done. It's only a beginning, and it's an uncertain beginning." No bids were offered for the Mansouria gas field in Diyala province, home to some of Iraq's worst violence. Only one bid was submitted for each of the Bai Hassan and Kirkuk oil fields in the north, the Akkas gas field, and the Missan fields - three adjacent fields offered as one bloc. China's CNOOC led the consortium bidding for Missan, and sought a payment of $21.40 per barrel over the baseline minimum output level. Iraq said it was willing to pay $2 per barrel. The Zubair oil field attracted four consortiums, while the West Qurna Stage I field in the south drew interest from five groups led by France's Total, Russia's Lukoil, Spain's Repsol, Exxon and CNPC. Again, in the case of West Qurna, the bids were as much as 10 times more than what the government was willing to pay. Officials had earlier said that any fields not agreed on would be re-offered in subsequent rounds. Al-Shahristani, however, said the top offers on all the non-awarded fields - except for Mansouria - would be presented to the cabinet for review. The step was clearly aimed at saving the process. But it embraced the same solution that has stoked parliamentary ire. Some lawmakers have argued that al-Shahristani's insistence on having the Cabinet approve the deals, instead of the parliament, would render the deals unconstitutional. The political wrangling was largely an effort by the country's various political blocs to secure a stake in Iraq's oil fortunes. But whatever its roots, the dispute has done little to calm international oil companies' angst. The firms were already worried about Iraq's security situation, the lack of a new national oil law and the government's argument that deals struck independently with the semiautonomous Kurds in the north are illegal. The poor showing Tuesday will do little to boost al-Shahristani's clout. His critics have pointed to Iraq's inability to even reach its prewar production levels as evidence that he has failed in his job. Others gripe that the bidding round will open the door for an economic occupation of the country at a time when it is pulling away from the U.S. military presence that many in Iraq likened to military occupation. The minister, however, has insisted he was working for the country's best interests. Iraqi officials have estimated that based on crude oil at $50 per barrel, the companies could have earned around $16 billion in total. Iraq, meanwhile, would have brought in over $1.7 trillion. The company response to the bidding sends a clear signal to Iraq, said analysts. It says "the companies will still be there, but they've made it clear what their baseline is, and that they can't go into the red even to get access to Iraqi oil," said Ciszuk. "The risks are just too great." |
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Al wie geintresseerd is in een doe-het-zelf 9mm machinepistool. Oftewel waarom vuurwapenwetten nooit gaan werken. Enkel voor educatieve doeleinden ![]() Stalin: "The only real power comes out of a long rifle." En hij verbood prompt alle particulier wapenbezit. Stalin was immers niet zo geïnteresseerd in democratie (waar het volk de macht bezit). Laatst gewijzigd door Fallen Angel : 3 februari 2010 om 19:03. |
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![]() Ik heb u vernederd.Daar gaat het om.
![]() En vergeet niet dat die amerikaanse bedrijven een stevige winst wilden maken.Kon niet en dus bleven ze aan de zijlijn.De anderen zullen moeten zien dat ze er een cent aan verdienen wat niet vanzelfsprekend zal zijn.Wie laatst lacht best lacht. |
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