Introduction

This Handbook is aimed at the New Ventures Groups of International Oil Companies, the IOCs, and also at the smaller investor who is interested in petroleum investment opportunities in the Iraqi upstream, midstream and downstream. It is hoped that what I have to say might also be of interest to a future Iraqi government. The Handbook is designed to evaluate the four kinds of petroleum prospectivity inherent in any country: Iraq's technical prospectivity: the chance of finding oil and/or gas in paying quantities. The technical prospectivity of Iraq is not in any ...