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May 06, 2013

Iraq: Shell's $17 billion gas project 'a milestone'
Baghdad (UPI) May 3, 2013
Iraq has inaugurated a $17 billion natural gas project run by Royal Dutch Shell that the Financial Times hails as a "milestone" in the country's postwar recovery, even as the Oil Ministry is scaling back ambitious oil production targets. At the same time, there's been a marked downturn in interest in Iraq by major international oil companies as the coalition government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki founders amid never-ending political crises, worsening sectarian bloodshed, spillover from th ... read more

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