Renewed IOC interest could be the turning point Iraq’s oil sector desperately needs after struggling to attract investment and technical expertise over the last decade. Capacity growth has slowed dramatically in recent years, held back by infrastructure bottlenecks. Its maturing oil fields require more water injection just to sustain output, while pipeline, pumping, storage and export capacity constraints have capped upstream production growth (see chart 1).
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