VOL. XLI

No. 28

13-July-1998

IRAQ

Iraq Holds Talks With Western Firms To Develop And Export Gas To Turkey

MEES learns that an Iraqi Ministry of Oil delegation, headed by Director Generalfor Planning Faleh Khayat, met in Turkey last week with several western firms, includingUS oil companies, to discuss the possibility of establishing an international consortiumthat would join Turkish firms in developing and exporting gas from northern Iraq toTurkey.

In December 1996 Iraq and Turkey signed an...