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Directly from the links you posted: - Halfaya: CNPC, Total SA, Petronas - West Qurna: ExxonMobil, Shell, Lukoil, Statoil, Eni SpA, CNPC, Petronas - Rumalia:
by turar 13y ago
Directly from the links you posted:
- Halfaya: CNPC, Total SA, Petronas
- West Qurna: ExxonMobil, Shell, Lukoil, Statoil, Eni SpA, CNPC, Petronas
- Rumalia: BP, CNPC
- Majnoon: Shell, Petronas
Of all these, only ExxonMobil is an American company. Shell and BP are not American, regardless of the presence, unless you want to call Exxon a British or a Dutch company as well.
But more importantly, all these contracts were awarded on a competitive basis, with a bidding process. Especially telling is an entry for Rumalia field: "ExxonMobil which also bid on servicing this field at a price $4.80 walked away due to price cutting terms by the Iraqi Government leaving BP and CNPC as winners of the contract.".
- Volpe 13y agoYou don't have to be an American company to benefit from American policy. And I'm sure congressmen benefit from the "non-american" oil companies. The question I would like to know the answer to, is who was drilling the oil before the war... it seems unclear, but if it was Iraq (national companies) then the war was defiantly an oil grab.
- turar 13y agoI doubt CNPC, Lukoil, Petronas, Statoil, and others were in collusion with the Bush administration to invade Iraq and gain control over its oil by competitively outbidding each other in the end.