Analysis of the prospect of Entering Iraqi Oil Market

92, Iraq restarted 75% of the national grid, including the 1320 MW Baiji and Mosul thermal plants as well as the Saddam Dam.
             Iraq's southern oil industry was decimated during the Gulf War, with production capacity falling to 75,000 bbl/d in mid 1991. The war resulted in destruction of gathering centers and compression/degassing stations at Rumaila storage facilities, Mina al-Bakr/Basra export terminal, and pumping stations of Iraq Strategic (North-South) Pipeline. Seven other sizable fields remain damaged or partially mothballed. These include Zubair, Luhais, Suba, Buzurgan, Abu Ghirab, and Fauqi. Generally speaking, oil field development plans were put on hold following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, with Iraqi efforts on maintaining production at existing fields.
             After the end of the Kuwait war, Iraq was under heavy economic sanctions from 1991-2002, which ultimately took its toll on the oil industry. Some
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