VOL. XXXVII

NO. 12

20-DECEMBER-1993

Major Western Oil Companies Hold Exploratory Talks With Iraq

MEES understands that senior Iraqi oil officials and representatives of asizable number of major American and European oil companies have held extensiverounds of exploratory talks in 'Amman over the past three weeks concerningpossible upstream activities and projects. In the past, Iraq had always insistedthat such high-level talks should be held only in Baghdad. For their part, mostforeign firms,...