Russian petrol & Iraq

[ChrisD(RJ)]

lukoil was also mentioned in the article. it said russian companies 
were the first (in nb, about 6 out of 20, cf a deutsche bank study) to 
have had contacts with irak. lukoil is said to have signed a huge 
contract there but since it did not invest anything irak abruptly put 
an end to the contract last january (?) 
it looked like irak had trapped security council members into 
prospective contracts that have not brought yet any practical results. 
do you have ideas about that ? 
jc helary 
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Interesting hypothesis. Hadn't thought about it.
Didn't Iraq reinstate the contracts after all? I'll look into it.