Obstacles to pumping Iraqi oil

The World

Oil company executives are questioning a statement by Iraq’s oil minister who’s projecting that the country could reach an output of 12 million barrels of oil a day. The oil may be there, but problems with security, political instability, and poor infrastructure could get in the way. Correspondent Susannah George reports.

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