Iraq Petroleum Co. driller in his youth, now returns to sign first Iraq joint venture

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It’s been 50 years since Peter Redman drilled wells on Iraq’s Zubair and Rumaila fields on behalf of British Petroleum, a major stakeholder of the Iraq Petroleum Co., which controlled Iraq’s oil until it was kicked out in the 1970s in the nationalization campaign. Now he’s back.

Ben Lando reports for United Press Internationa…