Iraq Petroleum Co. driller in his youth, now returns to sign first Iraq joint venture

It's been 50 years since Peter Redman drilled wells on Iraq's Zubair and Rumaila fields on behalf of British Petroleum, a major stakeholder of the Iraq Petroleum Co., which controlled Iraq's oil until it was kicked out in the 1970s in the nationalization campaign. Now he's back.

Ben Lando reports for United Press International on Sunday, Mesopotamian Petroleum Co., of which Redman is deputy chairman, was announced by the state-run Iraq Drilling Co. as a partner in a joint venture aimed at bringing technology, expertise and new-age drilling to an Iraqi sector hurting from three decades of war, mismanagement and sanctions.