The facts regarding Iraqi oil and gas reserves and their legal status prior to self-governance -- The provisions of the Iraqi Constitution addressing oil and gas activities : of the role of subcentral governing entities, handling of revenues, and "present" versus "future" fields -- Federal oil and gas framework law and subcentral government responses -- A primer on the federal model exploration and production contracts and the Kurdistan regional government's model production-sharing contract -- The federal oil and gas revenue-sharing law : its many problems -- Measures to reconstitute the Iraq National Oil Company (INOC) and reorganize the ministry of oil -- The matter of creditor claims : an examination of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1790 (18 Dec. 2007) and 1859 (22 Dec. 2008), and their predecessors -- Central government authority to strike oil and gas development agreements in the absence of a federal framework law -- Distributing profits in the absence of a federal revenue-sharing law -- Changing the mix : transition fails and the face of Iraq is altered.