http://www.gulfkeystone.com/ The firms exploration programme in Algeria is going well and "the shares look good value", say the Investors Chronicle. Your comments please. goal.

Iraq and Kurdistan: how to divide oil? 18 March 2012, 13:42
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I can see this becoming a serious irritation....

18 Mar 2012-Iraq moves to diversify oil export options from Hormuz
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18 March 2012 Sunday-Turkey, Iraq to increase oil trade
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THE TIMES-Sunday tip round-up: Sunday 18 Mar 2012
Gulf Keystone Petroleum, Rockhopper Exploration, Tesco, Vodafone Group, Glaxosmithkline, Bp, Rio Tinto, Unilever
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Mirabeau's AKNews link is worth posting in part I think, so here it is.
There is more to the article, but mostly background.
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Kurdish coalition: We will not allow the return to centralism to government
BAGHDAD, March 18 (AKnews)
- The Kurdish Blocs Coalition stated today that it will not allow the return of centralism in government, accusing Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs Hussein al-Shahristani of exaggerating the differences between the Kurdistan Region and Baghdad.

Coalition spokesman Muayyid Tayyeb said: "Al-Shahristani gives a distorted picture to the world about the political process in Iraq, and his threatening for the oil companies depicts the dispute between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the central government as a dispute between two states."

He added that this dispute will serve neither Baghdad nor Erbil and will only make major oil companies reluctant to invest in Iraq.

He continued: "Shahristani did not succeed in managing the oil and gas file in the previous government and he failed in the current government and he is causing a lot of problems between the region and Baghdad because of his practices.

"Shahristani can't impose his vision on all political forces in Iraq and we have the legal means to prevent him from doing that. He is still following the old mentality that allows the minister in Baghdad to decide about everything. Centralism means lack of democracy and this is unconstitutional and the political blocs don't accept it."

mportant dates this week:

20th - Genel annual results
21st & 22nd - European oil conference in London - GKP presen Itin

http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/4/296719/

UPSTREAM ONLINE-Iraq's Hormuz contingency plan, 19 March 2012 03:11 GMT
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CEO of Total has just stated on CNBC that he is discussing acquisitions of assets in Kurdistan with 4 companies.
edit.

his words on Kurdistan are:

"We are now more than looking, we are discussing, with (er) small companies who have already-existing assets, on how we could, in a relatively short period of time, enter into Kurdistan"

he doesn't mention '4' companies at all. he says "small companies", maybe that was just a mis-hearing on original poster's part.

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4331117

Not sure i understand this RNS,as the number of shares is the same as reported on the 29thFeb? They have reported ONE EXTRA SHARE??

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000079211

just came across this.

SF is none other than SpikeyDT, who is also behind the Precogz website which, in effect, is a TRADERS site; I am receiving daily emails from them due to my registration with Shareprice and all they do is identify patterns in charts and provide TRADING advice............

If you follow SF's tweets, understand that he will be putting made-up information in the public domain that he WANTS you to TRADE with, to make his TRADING website more accurate and thus more profitable.

Their's a strong possibllity that KRG are going to announce "INDEPENDENCE",this week and Wednesday is favorite?

They should have done so when Iraq was first invaded

There is no chance the KRG will announce independence and lots of rampers on III are going to look silly, just like they did with their "GKP taken over by end Feb 2012" nonsense.

They don't gain anything from being part of Iraq, so why not declare UDI!

Well, war with Iraq and also Turkey, who would both not accept a Kurdish state.

So unless you want to see all Kurdistan oilfields shut down due to war, you better hope that there is no UDI anytime soon.

http://aknews.com/en/aknews/2/296588/

civil war would be a disaster for iraq.