VOL. XLVI

No 38

22-September-2003

IRAQ

SOMO Sends Reassuring Message To Markets Despite Turbulent Past

In a paper to the 11th Middle East Petroleum and Gas (MPGC) conference in Dubai on 9 September, Muhammad al-Jiburi, SOMOs General Manager, and Shamkhi Faraj, Advisor at the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, summarized the saga of Iraqi oil exports during the past quarter of a century as follows: We can state confidently that marketing of Iraqi oil has been always a very challenging task, not for anything...