Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVII

No 27

05-July-2004

IRAQ

Iraqi Oil Industry: Challenges Ahead For The Interim Government

The following article on the tasks facing the Iraqi oil industry as sovereignty passes to the interim government was written for MEES by Fadhil Othman, former Acting Executive Director of SOMO.

The transfer of power in Iraq last week leaves the country in a state of limbo. The state is semi-sovereign now (if such a legal term exists), with neither full powers nor a plan of...