VOL. XLVII

No 16

19-April-2004

IRAQ

Views On An Upstream Petroleum Policy For Iraq

By Farouk Al-Kasim

The following article was written for MEES by Dr Kasim, an independent energy consultant working in Stavanger, Norway. Dr Kasim worked for 11 years in Iraqs South Oil Company and five years as Adviser to the Norwegian Ministry of Industry and then Director of Resource Management at the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, 1973-91.

After three decades of hardship and suffering Iraq is today at the...