Success, but more tests, in Basra unrest turnaround
It's back to business as usual in Iraq's biggest oil fields after Iraqi oil and security officials quickly moved to improve security and reassure foreign oil firms.
Workers adjust a valve at the Rumaila oil field in Basra province in this May 24, 2010 file photo. (ATEF HASSAN/Reuters)
BASRA - In the final months of 2013, Basra's security forces and oil industry faced a series of challenges unseen in their ferocity and succession since foreign oil companies returned to Iraq.
Yet oil production is increasing and exports are on track to follow suit, as southern Iraq looks increasingly safe to operate multi-billion dollar oil development projects, in large part because Iraqi officials moved quickly to contain and quell incidents that could have derailed them.
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