Total, Nippon tipped for Iraqi oil deals
Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 15:07
in Mathematics & Economics
BAGHDAD, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- France's Total and Japan's Nippon Oil are seen as front-runners to secure development rights to some of the 10 Iraqi oil fields up for auction in Baghdad next week that the government hopes will triple oil production and restore the crisis-torn country's fortunes.