This handbook is directed towards the International Oil
Companies, IOCs, who are contemplating investment in a
future Iraq, post-Saddam. The approach is to describe the
investment opportunities likely to become available in the
upstream in the quite near future as a renewed Iraq gets
back on its feet. It will describe the downstream work which
will be needed before the upstream sector will be able to
take advantage of the available opportunities. This
downstream work will include the rehabilitation needed on
pipelines particularly but also on export terminals. Much
engineering work will also be needed on tank farms,
refineries etc. so that the Iraqi market can be supplied with
much-needed petrol, diesel and paraffin for local domestic
use. Oil well fires will need to be extinguished.