US oil giant Exxon Mobil and Russia’s Lukoil are trying to sell their oil fields in Iraq to a Chinese state-owned oil company. But as Ben Van Heuvelen, editor-in-chief of Iraq Oil Report tells host Marco Werman, Iraqi authorities are concerned that a single country, China, would have too much control over Iraq’s oil production.
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