{"id":195714,"date":"2008-06-19T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/19\/no-bid-contracts\/"},"modified":"2008-06-19T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T04:01:00","slug":"no-bid-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/19\/no-bid-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"No Bid Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like the Iraqi oil ministry, likely on the advice of the American advisers who work there, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/19\/world\/middleeast\/19iraq.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\">have cut some deals with some oile companies for field maintenance<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP \u2014 the original partners in the Iraq Petroleum Company \u2014 along with Chevron and a number of smaller oil companies, are in talks with Iraq\u2019s Oil Ministry for<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;font-size:180%;\" >No-Bid Contracts<\/span> <\/span>to service Iraq\u2019s largest fields, according to ministry officials, oil company officials and an American diplomat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>No bid contracts&#8230;says it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like the Iraqi oil ministry, likely on the advice of the American advisers who work there, have cut some deals with some oile companies for field maintenance Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP \u2014 the original partners in the Iraq Petroleum Company \u2014 along with Chevron and a number of smaller oil &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1135,1063],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-energy","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}