News and Interviews on Iraqi Oil
Dathar Al-Khashab, Director General of Midland Refinery Co, gives his take on Iraq’s planned refining investment conference scheduled for June 26, in an interview with Ruba Husari in Baghdad. Q: Do you expect Iraq to succeed in getting foreign investors to build any of the four refineries on offer? A: It is very hard to get investors to invest in any refineries anywhere, not just in Iraq because margins are…
Thamir al-Ghadhban, former Iraqi Minister of Oil and Chairman of the Advisory Commission at the Prime Minister’s office, gives his take on the latest developments in Iraq’s oil sector and analyses future trends in an interview in Baghdad with Ruba Husari. Q: How do you expect a new government following the March 7 legislative elections to deal with the signed contracts? Is there a risk that the legality of those…
Issam al-Chalabi writes: “Iraq is a landlocked country with a narrow opening to the Gulf. That by itself has been the cause of many conflicts with neighbouring Iran and Kuwait, meaning that, in addition to utilizing its Gulf outlet, Iraq must send oil through other neighboring countries to provide additional and alternative export outlets. This again has been a source of political conflicts and confrontations ever since the commercial discovery…
Iraq’s Oil Exports Outlets – By Issam al-Chalabi