Looking under the Oil Plains

Iraq Oil Industry: Looking under the Oil Plains

Iraq: Oil and Gas Industry in the 20th Century

Ghanim Anaz (2012)

978-1-908062-63-5

This is a truly unique title due it being the first of its kind that covers in detail all aspects of Iraq's Oil and Gas Industry during the twentieth century and beyond. Special emphasis being made on the historical, commercial, political and, technical, including exploration, discovery, development and production of the oil and gas fields as well as refining, gas processing and products marketing and distribution.

Detailing the early oil exploration concessions which were secured for the Iraq Petroleum Company Group by the support and influence of the British Government at the time when Iraq was quite powerless under the terms of mandate of the British Government. As well as listing and discussing the 84 oil and gas fields that have been discovered so far in the country. It discusses the various export pipelines through Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Turkey to the Mediterranean Sea, together with all the turbulent and at times bitter commercial and political disputes between these countries themselves on the one hand and between them and the international oil companies through their subsidiary the Iraq Petroleum Company Group.

Stories told of the uneasy relationship between Iraq and the IPC. It also controversially describes the invasion of Iraq in 2003, which brought its vast oil and gas reserves under the direct control of the occupying powers of the United States and Britain.

As such the book is a comprehensive and unique look in to the Iraq Oil situation and it is expected to become a classical reference book for all those interested in Iraq's oil and gas affairs whether they are oil companies, oilmen, historians, politicians, academics, researchers, or the public at large.

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