Jul 23 2012

Southern province to turn into major oil producer in Iraq

  By Majid al-Baldawi Azzaman, July 23, 2012 The southern Province of Missan, among the most impoverished in Iraq’s 18 provinces, is to produce half a million barrels of oil in three years, said Deputy Prime Minister Hussein al-Shahristani. The remarks by Shahristani, who oversees the country’s energy sector, were made as he inaugurated the [...]