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HOUSTON, 02 July 2009 -- Energy prices retreated June 30, giving back much of the gain from the previous session with crude again dropping below $70/bbl “on a stronger dollar and in response to a ...
02 July 2009 -- Matthew Wakeman, EFG-Hermes managing director for cash and equity-linked trading.
02 July 2009 -- The successful joint bid by BP and China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) to develop an oilfield in Iraq has offered unique opportunities for the Chinese company to tap crude reserves ...
02 July 2009 -- Tuesday was the deadline by which US troops had to withdraw from major Iraqi cities. This clear line in the sand must provide some relief to many Americans, whose sacrifice has been ...
Baghdad, 02 July 2009 -- Police say a roadside bomb killed an Iraqi soldier and wounded seven other people in central Baghdad.
02 July 2009 -- Iraq awarded a BP-led consortium the right to develop the giant Rumaila oil field but failed to strike deals for seven oil and gas fields as companies balked at the country's contract ...
02 July 2009 -- U.S troops withdrew from Iraqi cities on June 30, in a move welcomed by the Iraqi government as a ‘Day of National Sovereignty’. Niqash met a number of Iraqi politicians to hear ...
02 July 2009 -- A car bomb in the northern Iraqi oil hub of Kirkuk killed at least 30 people and wounded 120 others on Tuesday just as Nouri al-Maliki, prime minister, sought to reassure the country ...
02 July 2009 -- We are at the beginning of the end. On Tuesday, US troops left Iraq’s cities, and in two years they will leave the country. Or so the official story goes. In reality, most of the ...
02 July 2009 -- In 1901 a group of French archaeologists uncovered a 2,700-year-old Babylonian tablet in what is now Iran. Not only is the Hammurabi codex the first example of a written legal code; ...
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