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Q&A: Ibrahim Abdul-Zahra, deputy director of the South Refineries Company

Iraq’s refineries cannot meet domestic demand for fuel and the poor quality of crude feedstock is compounding the problem.
Ibrahim Abdul-Zahra, deputy director of the South Refineries Company. (ALI AL-AQILY/Iraq Oil Report)

BASRA - Iraq’s southern refineries are struggling to cope with rising domestic demand for gasoline amid a fuel crisis that has been made worse by rampant smuggling.

Iraq Oil Report spoke with Ibrahim Abdul-Zahra, the deputy director of the state-run South Refineries Company (SRC), to ask about southern Iraq's domestic supply capacity.

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