Iraq’s ability to reach its energy potential should be of broad regional and international concern. Iraq could be … world. Should Iraq meet its ambitions to bring nearly 10 million more barrels of oil on line by 2017, it would constitute … the largest ever capacity increase in the history of the oil industry. Should Iraq, more probably, bring only half this …

world and the biggest potential for capacity expansion of anywhere else, Iraq may be destined to dominate the world oil … political stability. Despite its long history as a producer, Iraq is largely untapped. Of more than eighty oilfields discovered … realistic to assume that Iraq has far larger oil reserves than documented so far, probably about 200 billion barrels (bb) more …

Iraq’s recent service contracts with international oil companies, known as technical service contracts (TSC), exemplify … of Iraq’s Rumaila producing field technical service contract via a dynamic optimization model of oil production and well … reforms in Iraq’s oil sector …

Effectively, the government of Iraq, not the Iraqi people, owns the oil wealth; the oil industry is a government …

realism. Design/methodology/approach The 1991 Gulf War and the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 are two major events of …