A Game As Old As Empire by Steven Hiatt

Author:Steven Hiatt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2007-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Dick Cheney, speech at the Institute of Petroleum Autumn Lunch, London, November 15, 1999.

2. Carola Hoyos, “Big Players Anticipate Iraq’s Return to Fold,” Financial Times, February 20, 2003.

3. Shell in the Middle East, Shell corporate magazine, April 2005.

4. Andrew Rowell, “Undue Influence,” in al-Khaleej, June 4, 2006 (UAE) (in Arabic).

5. “ITIC 10-Year Review, 2003” (Washington, D.C.: International Tax and Investment Center, 2003), p. 4.

6. “ITIC Annual Report 1997.”

7. Deepa Babington, “About Half of All Iraqis Unemployed—Govt. Official,” Reuters, February 9, 2006.

8. “One Iraqi in Five Living in Poverty,” Agence France Presse, January 25, 2006.

9. See, for example, (U.S.) National Energy Policy Development Group, National Energy Policy, report, May 2001, p. 8-5; Jack Straw, UK secretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs, speech, “Strategic Priorities for British Foreign Policy,” January 6, 2003; UK Ministry of Defence White Paper: Modern Forces for the Modern World (Strategic Defence Review), July 1998, chapter 2, paragraph 40; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK International Priorities: A Strategy for the FCO, December 2003; U.S. Department of Commerce, Memorandum for the President, Transmittal of the Report on the U.S.-UK Energy Dialogue, July 30, 2003.

10. Dan Witt, “Applying the Principles of Taxation to the Russian Economy,” Tax Features, September 1992, p. 7.

11. “ITIC 10-Year Review, 2003,” p. 3.

12. Eduardo Lachica, “New Kazakh Tax System Is Applauded by Investors,” Asian Wall Street Journal, May 7, 1995.

13. U.S. Department of Defense, “Pipeline Sustains Operations,” press release, September 4, 2003.

14. Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (London: Simon & Schuster, 1991), p. 541.

15. “BP, UK Investigate Grangemouth’s Woes,” Octane Week, July 24, 2000; Fiona O’Brien, “BP Amoco Safety under Spotlight after UK Mishaps,” Reuters, June 15, 2000.

16. Interview by David Bacon and Martha Mundy, international delegation to Basra, May 2005.

17. UNICEF, Child and Maternal Mortality Survey—Iraq, July 1999.

18. ITIC, Strategic Questions for Our Future (Washington, D.C.: International Tax and Investment Center, undated [2004]).

19. ITIC Bulletin, January 2003, p. 3.

20. Sir Maurice Hankey, letter to Arthur Balfour, 1918, cited in Yergin, The Prize, p. 188.

22. The last remnants of concessions were nationalized in 1975.

23. Rowell, “Undue Influence.”

24. Thomas W. Wälde, “The Current Status of International Petroleum Investment: Regulating, Licensing, Taxing and Contracting,” CEPMLP Journal 1, no. 5 (July 1995), published by the University of Dundee.

25. ITIC, “Petroleum and Iraq’s Future: Fiscal Options and Challenges,” Fall 2004, p. 10.

26. Dunia Chalabi (International Energy Agency), “Perspective for Investment in the Middle East/North Africa Region,” presentation to the OECD, Istanbul, February 11-12, 2004, p. 7.

27. Ian Rutledge, Addicted to Oil: America’s Relentless Drive for Energy Security (London: I. B. Tauris, 2005).

28. These figures are in real terms (2006 prices), undiscounted. The calculation is based on data from the Iraqi Ministry of Oil and industry sources, for the fields Halfaya, Nahr Umar, Majnoon, West Qurna, Gharaf, Nasiriya, Rafidain, Amara, Tuba, Ratawi, East Baghdad, and Ahdab. Cash flow models were constructed for these fields, applying PSA terms that are used in Russia, Libya, and Oman. A range of standard modeling assumptions

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