Former Iraqi oil officials pen letter urging Parliament to unilaterally move on oil law, in a critique of Baghdad and Erbil.

Experts demand Parliament take oil action

Experts demand Parliament take oil action
Workers measure the pressure at the Central Processing Facility at the Tawke oil field in Iraqi Kurdistan. (SEBASTIAN MEYER/Metrography/Iraq Oil Report)

A group of nearly 30 former Iraqi oil ministry officials and experts, living both in Iraq and the diaspora, have written a letter of stinging critique of the management and politicization of the country's oil sector, and demanded Parliament take responsibility. The letter, which is critical of Iraq's Kurdistan region's oil policy specifically and the general lax management by Baghdad of the nation's sole source of revenue, was sent to Iraq Oil Report by one of the signatories and confirmed b...

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