Alamri out as head of Iraq’s oil sales
The latest shakeup of Oil Ministry leadership sees longtime SOMO chief replaced with senior ministry official currently focused on financial matters.![](https://cdn.iraqoilreport.com/wp-content/uploads/Falah-Alamri-at-OPEC.jpg)
Falah Alamri, then head of Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO), speaks to journalists at an OPEC meeting in Vienna on June 14, 2012. (ALEXANDER KLEIN/AFP/GettyImages)
Iraq's longtime head of oil sales, Falah Alamri, has been transitioned from director general of the State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) to advisor to the Oil Ministry.
Alaa al-Yassiri, acting director general of the economic and investment directorate at the ministry since February and a former deputy director general in charge of finance at SOMO, has been named as acting chief of SOMO, according to two ministerial orders issued Sunday by Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luiebi.
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