News and Interviews on Iraqi Oil
Nihad Mousa, is the Director General of State Co for Oil Projects (Scop). She is the first Iraqi woman to hold the position of director general in the Iraqi oil ministry’s companies. In this interview with Ruba Husari in Baghdad, she spells out Scop’s role in the unprecedented expansion of the oil infrastructure that will cater for the increase in crude oil output over the next few years. Q: Scop…
21 September 2005 Iraq is unlikely to see any major change in its current 2.2 million barrels per day of production capacity or in the paralysis of its northern export route until late 2006 or early 2007 at the earliest, according to former Oil Minister Thamer al-Ghadban. Upstream progress will only come with the implementation of recently awarded contracts and others under consideration, he told International Oil Daily Tuesday on…