{"id":2739,"date":"2018-03-29T08:38:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T12:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=47b0dc4ee454dbc41578afb1a9379f8f"},"modified":"2018-03-29T08:38:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T12:38:30","slug":"iraq-brings-forward-date-for-bids-for-oil-exploration-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/03\/29\/iraq-brings-forward-date-for-bids-for-oil-exploration-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq brings forward date for bids for oil exploration rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD &#8212; Iraq has brought forward the date for oil companies to bid on exploring and developing nearly a dozen hydrocarbon-rich areas to April 15, instead of June.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s announcement by Abdul-Mahdi al-Ameedi, who heads the Oil Ministry&#8217;s Licensing and Petroleum Contracts Department, took representatives of international companies by surprise.<\/p>\n<p>They say there isn&#8217;t enough time now to study the offered contract and prepare bids. Al-Ameedi wouldn&#8217;t offer an explanation for changing the date.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, authorities offered nine exploration blocks in central and southern Iraq, including one in Iraq&#8217;s territorial waters in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Ameedi says two more blocks have been added.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq looks to boost energy revenue to fund its post-war reconstruction after fighting the Islamic State group, as well as to shore up finances amid low oil prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD &mdash; Iraq has brought forward the date for oil companies to bid on exploring and developing nearly a dozen hydrocarbon-rich areas to April 15, instead of June. Thursday&rsquo;s announcement by Abdul-Mahdi al-Ameedi, who heads the Oil Ministry&rsquo;s Licensing and Petroleum Contracts Department, took representatives of international companies by surprise. They say there isn&rsquo;t enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}