VOL. XLI

No. 22

1-June-1998

IRAQ

UN Report Says Iraq Needs To Develop New Fields To Prevent Further Decline in Export Capacity

The UN report on the state of Iraq's oil industry submitted to the Security Council on 15 April - to which MEES has now had access - concludes that the "developed oil fields have had their productivity irreparably reduced as a result of events during the last two decades," and recommends the development of one or more currently undeveloped fields,...