Iraq poised for key role in global energy sector  Justin Dargin
University of Oxford Oxford, UK Over the past few decades, Iraq
has rarely been featured in the news for positive developments.
However, a revolution is in the works as the country is busy
building a bright future on the back of its rapid improvements
in the energy sector. Iraq has the world's fourth largest global
oil reserves after Saudi Arabia, Canada, and Iran, amounting to
143.1 billion bbl at the end of 2011.1 However, due to Iraq's
history of wars, sanctions, underinvestment, and invasion over
the past several decades, it may discover significantly more oil
on its territory as just a small proportion of the country has
been adequately explored, much less developed. Ir...  Why
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