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New North Oil Company chief appointed

Former NOC planning director Akram Fouad Ahmed appointed by order from PM Abadi as new director general.
Flares burn at the Baba Dome of the Kirkuk oil field on Aug. 3, 2009. (AKO RASHEED/Reuters)

Akram Fouad Ahmed, a 25-year veteran of the North Oil Company (NOC), has been named by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi as the state-run company's new director general.

He takes over from Safa Abdulrahman Ahmed, the deputy director general of NOC who was temporarily put in charge following the removal of Sameer Salman al-Taie on July 27.

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