Iraq fires head of state-owned oil company (AFP)


An oil worker pictured at an oil field in the southern Rumaila region of Iraq, July 2007. The Iraqi government has fired the head of state-owned South Oil Company (SOC), who publicly criticised Baghdad's auctioning off of oil and gas fields to foreign energy giants, an oil ministry spokesman said on Thursday.(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)AFP - The Iraqi government has fired the head of state-owned South Oil Company (SOC), who publicly criticised Baghdad's auctioning off of oil and gas fields to foreign energy giants, an oil ministry spokesman said on Thursday.



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