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• Volume VII: Exports, Iraq and OPEC
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About the author:
Dr Thamir Uqaili, the principal author, is a petroleum engineer with over 40 years experience in exploration, petroleum engineering and technical management in the INOC and at the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, and who has led a team of Iraqi experts to provide research for this study. He has taken considerable risks to his personal safety in accumulating the data and information, during numerous visits to Iraq over the last four years.

This study contains a large amount of hands-on operational information on Iraq’s oilfields and examines exploration in the country. With copious well-by-well and field-by-field data, it offers a wealth of detail on how actual operations are conducted in Iraq.

Hydrocarbon exploration and field development in Iraq is essential reading for companies who aspire to a future market presence in Iraq, who are about to enter Iraq or who plan to expand their existing activities in the country.

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