Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIV

No 9

28-Feb-2011

IRAQ

Export Bottlenecks Emerge As Ever More Significant Obstacle To Expansion

Bottlenecks at Iraqi export terminals and pipeline infrastructure are becoming an ever more serious obstacle to upstream expansion, MEES understands. For some time Iraq industry watchers have been warning of the problem, but it now looms as a potential threat to capacity expansion within months, especially in the oil rich Basra province where most of the...