Iraq: Maliki, Halliburton and West Qurna drilling subcontractnote

The Iraqi Parliament’s Oil and Energy Committee is said to have started a drive to interrogate ExxonMobil Iraq about awarding Halliburton a subcontract to provide it with drilling services for 15 wells in West Qurna-1 oil field in southern Iraq. The following 376-word report sheds light on the subject and tells what about the reactions of Iraqi PM Nouri Al-Maliki, Deputy PM for Energy Hussein Al-Shahristani and Oil Minister Abdul-Kareem Luaibi.