Iraq Oil?

[Old Sailor]

Never see anything in the news about the status of the Iraq oilfields.
Old Sailor

[Milo Christensen]

Gotta look for 'em and sort the wheat from the chaff. Here's 926 recent news articles (http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Iraq+oil+fields&ie=UTF-8), a few of which are almost pertinent.

Edit: Here's (http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=154631) a pretty good summary.

[LeeG]

sounds like a failed state:

Nearly two-thirds of Iraq's top 100 managers, including geologists and engineers, in Iraq's oil ministry and its affiliate companies have been murdered or left their jobs since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, according to current and former Iraqi oil officials.



Thamer Al-Ghadhban, oil advisor to Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki and a former oil minister, says the oil ministry hasn't been able to fill any of these top positions because of the lack of qualified staff.