IRAQ
 
Sweeteners Loom For Iraqi Downstream
 
Baghdad is finally coming round to the need to offer incentives to attract investors into its moribund refinery sector. The planned 300,000 b/d Nassiriya integrated refinery and field development project and the 140,000 b/d Karbala refinery projects are the priorities. Refinery runs last year of 585,000 b/d were certainly up on earlier post-2003 years – 2009 throughputs were around 450,000 b/d. But given that...