JWing
10-28-2010, 09:17 AM
On October 21, 2010 the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Natural Resource Ministry announced that it had signed its latest deal with a foreign company (http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resource-Wars/2010/10/21/Marathon-land-first-oil-deals-in-Iraq/UPI-26861287661975/) to develop its oil industry. The Houston-based Marathon corporation won the rights to four fields in Irbil province. Marathon will get (http://draft.blogger.com/%20http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/2/190087/) 80% and the KRG 20% in a joint venture for the Harir and Safen fields, and 45% interests in consortiums with other foreign firms and the KRG in the Sarsang and Atrush fields. Marathon is the fourth largest combined oil company, and fifth largest refiner in the United States.
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