Iraq: Approving a Hydrocarbon Law is Key to Iraq's Future

Aug 25, 2014 | Al-Monitor
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Nouri al-Maliki and the Islamic Dawa Party took office in Iraq eight years ago. Oil revenues topped $41 billion in 2007 and rose to nearly $86 billion in 2013. Oil production ranged between 2 million barrels per day at the beginning of that period to nearly 3 million barrels at its end.