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Locals look for benefits in oil boom

Demand for jobs and investment spurs local officials into pressing for meaningful results from the national governments energy strategy.

Haider Banyan has big plans for the relatively small – by Iraq standards – Nassiriya oil field.

The federal government is readying a contract with foreign oil firms and Banyan, deputy governor of Dhi Qar province, is banking it will pay off.

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