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...tempting for companies to miss having a foothold in Iraq," says Tariq Shafiq, director of the London oil consultancy PetroLog & Associates, and a previous executive director of Iraq's National Oil Company who helped to draft Iraq's new national oil law after the US invasion in 2003. "Where else would any company go today to have access to a field that produces two million barrels per day? There is none...
...Kurds have greatly complicated al-Maliki's ability to pass national legislation and deepened a sense of crisis. "The government's credibility is at its lowest, and that makes things very, very difficult," says Tariq Shafiq, one of the authors of the bill and director of Petrolog & Associates, an oil consultancy in London. He believes the vote should be shelved until the violence subsides and the government is more stable. Many parliamentarians--most of whom spend months of the year outside war-torn Iraq--agree. Says Saleh al-Mutlaq, head of the National Dialogue Front party, which has 11 seats...
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