Draft Oil Measure Sent to Parliament

[SWJED]

You are right about "not any time soon". In today's NY Times - Billions in Oil Missing in Iraq, U.S. Study Says by James Glanz.

Between 100,000 and 300,000 barrels a day of Iraq’s declared oil production over the past four years is unaccounted for and could have been siphoned off through corruption or smuggling, according to a draft American government report.

Using an average of $50 a barrel, the report said the discrepancy was valued at $5 million to $15 million daily.

The report does not give a final conclusion on what happened to the missing fraction of the roughly two million barrels pumped by Iraq each day, but the findings are sure to reinforce longstanding suspicions that smugglers, insurgents and corrupt officials control significant parts of the country’s oil industry...

[GPaulus]

You are right about "not any time soon". In today's NY Times - Billions in Oil Missing in Iraq, U.S. Study Says by James Glanz.

You are correct. Oil is being stolen every day. When I was there, we saw individuals along the pipeline digging catch basins and then puncturing the lines to collect the oil. I am certain that there are other much more elaborate schemes to syphon off oil revenue. It is the oil money that is fueling the insurgency and it is oil money that is giving legitmacy to the criminal based insurgency. They hire, they kill and they control the battlespace with fear and money.