VOL. XLV

No 33

19-August-2002

OPEC

USMilitary Intervention Could Mean No Iraqi Oil Output Growth, Says Mabro

US militaryintervention in Iraq couldcreate domestic political chaos there, leading to no growth in oil output or even worse a drop in production. This warning was given by Robert Mabro, Director of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, in an expanded version of an article publishedrecently in the Kuwaiti magazine al-Zaman (the full text is available atwww.oxfordenergy.com). The...