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China Snubs Washington With Big Oil Deals In South Iraq By Simon Watkins - Jan 21, 2021, 6:00 PM CST
There are three major troubling factors for new U.S. President Joe Biden. In the recently agreed US$2 billion five–year prepayment oil supply deal between the Federal Government of Iraq (FGI) in Baghdad and China’s Zhenhua Oil. First, is that the deal is straight out of the playbook that Russia used to gain control over Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern region of Kurdistan in 2017. Second, according to various sources close to Iraq’s Oil Ministry spoken to by
OilPrice.com last week, this deal between Russia’s Rosneft and the government of Kurdistan (the KRG) meant that Moscow was able to cause such disruption in the budget payments-for-oil deal between Kurdistan and Baghdad that the resulting financial crunch for the FGI pre-disposed Baghdad to look beneficially at the China proposal in the first place. This implies clearly that Russia and China
Baghdad, Jan. 2, 2021 Iraqi explosives experts on Saturday defused a marine mine attached to the hull of an oil tanker in the Gulf waters, the Iraqi military said in a statement.
The experts from the ministry of interior and Iraqi Navy, were able to defuse the limpet mine and launched an investigation into the incident, the Joint Operations Command (JOC) statement said.
The JOC had on Friday said that a marine mine was found on the side of the tanker on Thursday afternoon while it was fuelling another ship in the international Gulf waters.
It added that explosives experts were dispatched to the scene, which was about 51 km away from Iraq’s oil ports, to defuse the limpet mine.
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2021-01-01 16:35:33 GMT2021-01-02 00:35:33(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BAGHDAD, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) Iraq sent explosive experts to defuse a marine mine attached to a ship in the international Gulf waters about 51 km away from Iraq s oil ports, the military said Friday.
The marine mine was found on the side of the ship on Thursday afternoon when it was fuelling another ship, said a statement by the media office of the Joint Operations Command.
The explosive experts managed to evacuate the ship hired by Iraq s State Organization for Marketing of Oil, and is working to defuse the mine, the statement added, without giving more details.