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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
WASHINGTON, July 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Rep. Ileana
Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, commented today on the decision by Total S.A., the French oil
conglomerate, to cancel its partnership with the National Iranian Oil
Company (NIOC) in developing the South Pars fields, the world's largest gas
reserves. Earlier this year, Royal Dutch Shell and...
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Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
In Monday's Wall Street Journal, Michael Rubin argues that President Bush's newfound embrace of diplomacy with Iran is propping up a regime that would otherwise be drowning in its economic failures (Hat Tip: Hot Air). Diplomacy is not wrong, but President Bush's reversal is diplomatic malpractice on a Carter-esque level that is breathing new life into a failing regime. The Iranian government has
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Shariah Finance Watch (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
French firm quits Iran gas deal Total was reportedly the last major western energy firm interested in Iran The head of French energy giant Total has said it will not invest in Iran because it is too politically risky. The Company had been planning to develop the huge South Pars gas field, but Christophe de Margerie says [...]
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Zawya.com - Top Regional News (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Director of the Foreign Investment Bureau at Iran's Investment and Technical-Economic Assistance Organization said foreign investment in Iran showed an upward trend in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (started March 20).
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ICKPLUS (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
For those of you who still proclaim that "big" oil sets crude oil, gasoline, and other energy prices take a look at exactly who is "big" oil. It's not Exxon, BP, or Chevron. The largest oil and gas companies are National oil companies like National Iranian Oil Company (#1) in total reserves, followed closely by Saudi Arabian Oil Company (#2). Only three free enterprise companies crack the top 20. Exxon...
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PowerBlog! (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Monday, June 09, 2008Senator Specter: Investigate Planned Parenthood! Michelle Malkin asks: Can Arlen Specter spare a moment from investigating the New England Patriots to probe Planned Parenthood's efforts to advise underage teens on how to circumvent parental notification laws to secretly obtain RU-486, the abortion drug cocktail'Oil execs, tobacco execs, banking execs, pharmaceutical Company execs...
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Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Source: [b]The Huffington Post[/b] In the summer of 2005, John McCain's chief strategist Charlie Black, working for his firm Black, Kelly, Scruggs & Healey, was paid $60,000 to lobby the U.S. government on behalf of the Chinese oil conglomerate CNOOC. At the time, CNOOC was mounting an aggressive b...
