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Workers rebel

Iraq’s oil unions allude to tense future in Rumaila as foreign firms signed by the Oil Ministry are unwelcome, at least on the current terms.

By Ben Lando, Nizar Latif and Alaa Majeed of Iraq Oil Report
Published July 17, 2009

The leadership of Iraq’s most prominent oil union says the government should not as quickly turn to foreign firms in developing fields already producing oil, blaming politicians for stalling progress in Iraq’s oil fields.

Signing international oil companies to produce oil in undeveloped fields is nominally OK by the unions – including the second bid round for 11 fields – but not those that Iraqi workers and state oil company is already pumping from.

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