Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 31

1-August-2005

Iraq: Oil Plans and Policy

By Tariq Shafiq

The following paper was presented by Tariq Shafiq at a conference organized by the Open Society Institute and London School of Economics, Iraq Oil Wealth: Issues of Governance and Development, from 29 June to 1 July. Mr Shafiq, a petroleum techno-economic consultant, is a director of Petrolog & Associates, Chair of Fertile Crescent Oil Company and al-Mansour Petroleum Consulting Company, and a...