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Development Program Subject of a legal charge of pillage by
Worldwide Ltd
protestors charged with trespass in 2004, the
CPS dropped all charges against protestors,
The Clerg y House, Mark Street, London EC2A 4ER
denying the first legal challenge to corporate
www.iraqdevelopmentprogram.org
plunder in Iraq.
Development Program Worldwide, formerly
known as ‘Windrush Communications’,
promotes private investment in conflict zones
The Foreign and
and newly emergent markets. The DP brings
IRAQ LONDON EDITION
CORPORATE
together governments and multinational
Commonwealth Office
corporations in energy, mercenary, and
infrastructure sectors, to sign privatisation
King Charles Street, London SW1A 2AH
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contracts.
www.fco.gov.uk
Between 2003-2004 the FCO employed
Welcome to the London Hands Off Iraqi Oil Piratical Action Tour. London is home to
The Iraq Development Program has
former BP and Shell executives in the
many of the energ y companies, private military security companies and lobbyists which are
organised conferences facilitating the sell-
occupation’s Ministry of Oil to restructure
off of Iraqi assets and services since 2004.
the Iraqi oil industry. FCO representatives
fuelling and profiteering from the war and occupation in Iraq. This map is a short guide
Empowering local elites and multinational
has access and say over the Iraqi Oil Law
to the corporate piracy that surrounds us, and to some of the plunderers-in-chief...
corporations, the IDP embodies the DP’s
8 months before any Iraqi MPs. British
ethos of cracking open new markets in
diplomats have organised meetings between
Iraq’s Two Occupations war and occupation of Iraq enters its fifth year, we
are here to demand an end to both occupations of
conflict zones, exploiting the absence of
Shell and BP and the Iraqi oil ministry; have
Iraq and to challenge the corporate pirates and free-
democratic processes and structures in order
pushed lobbying documents in Iraq arguing
There are two occupations in Iraq. The military
market logic, which profit from these occupations.
to impose lasting neo-liberal economic
for PSAs and de-regulation, and FCO ‘Middle
occupation – represented by 160,000 US and
structures and relationships which benefit
East Economic Advisors’ have repeatedly been
4,000 British troops, tens of thousands of
No Occupation – military or
mercenaries, plus military bases and prison camps.
private capital over public service or say.
former Shell economic advisors.
And an economic occupation – represented by the
economic – Hands Off Iraqi Oil!
imposition of laws, regulations, and institutions
which promote the sell-off of Iraq’s assets,
services and rights to resource sovereignty.
Opening Iraq up to business is good news for
companies seeking new markets but for the people
of Iraq, suffering multiple shocks of dictatorship,
COMING PIRATICAL
war, bomb-attacks and displacement, it is a form
HANDS OFF
of pillage and a theft of self-determination.
EXCURSIONS
Struggle for Iraq’s oil
Thursday 17 April 2008
IRAQI OIL!
BP AGM, ExCel Centre, London
Oil accounts for 95% of Iraqi government revenue.
Despite popular misconceptions, it is still in the
London Hands Off Iraqi Oil is
Monday 19 May 2008
public sector. But for how much longer? Despite
part of an international campaign
Naomi Klein: ‘The Shock Doctrine: disaster
massive opposition to their presence, companies
such as Shell and BP have been lobbying and
in solidarity with the Iraqi people
capitalism in Iraq and beyond’
manoeuvring for a foothold in the oil sector
against the corporate theft of
Euston Friends Meeting House, NW1
since 2002. Shell, BP and other International Oil
Iraq’s oil. For more information
Companies are pushing for Production Sharing
Tuesday 20 May 2008
and to get involved visit us at:
Agreements – contracts which will give them
Shell AGM, The Hague/London
effective control of Iraq’s oil for 25 years.
www.HandsOffIraqiOil.org
For full details when available see www.handsoffiraqioil.org
The war and occupation of Iraq is a business
opportunity for these companies. It’s not just the
stealing of assets and resources, but the futures
and possibilities of generations to come. As the
IRAQ FOR SALE
Iraqi parliament first saw and commented on the draft.
was sponsored by BP, Chevron Texaco, ExxonMobil,
Erinys International Ltd
BP has submitted plans for contracts to develop the
Shell Total and ENI. The British Ambassador to
First Floor, 58 Grovsenor Street, London W1K
North and South Rumeilla super giant fields in Basra
Iraq delivered this document to the Iraqi Ministry of
www.erinysinternational.com
province.
Finance. ITIC, with the help of British diplomats,
has also organised meetings between Iraqi government
The Iraq division of this extractive industries-focused
private military security company won the contract
National Portrait Gallery
officials and international oil companies in Lebanon
and Jordan. ITIC has met with the UK Foreign Office
to train Iraq’s oil protection force. Worth $80m, it
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London WC2H 0HE
four times in the past five years. Iraqi energy sector
trained 14,000 guards, many controversially from
www.npg.org.uk
regulatory reform has been high on the agenda.
Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress’ private
security forces. Established by former apartheid-era
BP currently sponsors the National Portrait Gallery
officials in 2002 and employing former apartheid police
through its sponsorship of the annual BP Portrait
and intelligence officers, the firm has a reputation for
Royal Dutch Shell
Award, BP Travel Award, BP Young Artist Award and
using excessive force. In 2005 Erinys guards ran over
the BP Visitor Choice Award. Sponsorship of the arts
Shell Centre, Waterloo, London SE1 7NA
and killed American soldier Christopher Monroe.
and cultural spaces is a way of BP re-branding itself
www.shell.co.uk
It currently has 1,000 personnel in Iraq – most of
as a ‘good corporate citizen’. This allows it to both
them British. It is active in 3 regions in Iraq, focusing
greenwash its environmental violations and whitewash
Days before the bombing of Baghdad in 2003,
on facilities protection and convoy protection. It is
its appalling human rights record.
senior Shell executives met with British government
representatives to demand ‘a level playing field
positioning for contracts within the energy sector – its
core business.
International Tax and
for all oil companies, so that everyone has got a
fair opportunity’. Former Shell USA CEO Phillip
British Petroleum
Investment Centre
Carroll was appointed senior advisor the Coalition
Provisional Authority from February to September
2003. This was the most senior position in the
1 St James’s Square, London, SW1Y 4PD
8 Duncannon Street, London WC2N 4JF
foreign reconstruction process of Iraq’s oil industry.
www.bp.com
www.iticnet.org
Former BP CEOs Terry Adams and Bob Morgan
Although ITIC says it is an independent consultancy,
Shell, alongside BP also hired the ITIC to write
both worked as advisors to the Iraqi Ministry of Oil,
for over ten years, three of the four corporate
its lobbying document pushing for PSAs, and was
between 2003-2004. The British government paid them
member’s of ITIC’s Executive Committee have been
amongst the nine multinational oil companies which
£147,700 each for their work. Terry Adams wrote a
representatives from Chevron, BP and British Gas. The
commented upon and steered the drafting process
‘Code of Practice’ for the Iraqi Ministry of Oil which
ITIC has been pushing for a free market-driven Iraqi
of the Iraqi Hydrocarbon Law. Shell reps have
concluded that Iraq should open its oil sector to foreign
oil industry, open to international oil company control
been meeting with Iraqi Ministry of Oil officials in
investment. BP, along with Shell, also saw the first
through exclusive long-term contracts which will
Jordan. Shell has submitted proposals for Technical
draft of the Iraqi Hydrocarbon Law within weeks of its
surrender Iraq’s sovereignty to foreign companies for
Service Contracts for three major fields in Iraq:
publication. It commented upon and steered the draft
25 years . Its 84-page lobbying document ‘Petroleum
Akkas Gas Field (Anbar), and giant Kirkuk field,
to reflect its own interests. It was 8 months before the
and Iraq’s Future: Fiscal Options and Challenges’,
and Misan fields.
