Iraq gov’t reshuffles careers of dozens in south oil industry…

The Iraqi government has moved, demoted or fired more than a dozen people within the southern Iraqi oil sector this month as domestic and international union officials decry their treatment.

This week reports surfaced that South Oil Co. Director General Abdul Jabbar Lauby was removed from the head of Iraq's largest and most productive state oil company, as well as the head of the South Gas Co. and Iraqi Oil Tankers Co.