Iraq

• IEA’s Executive Director presents freedom medal to Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister for Energy 14 May 2012

  Dr. Hussain Al-Shahristani received the medal at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Awards 2012 ceremony in the Netherlands

• IEA fact-finding mission to Baghdad 1 March 2012

  Between February 27 and 29, a team from the IEA’s Office of the Chief Economist held a fact-finding mission in Baghdad which focused on the in-depth outlook for Iraq’s energy sector that will be published in a World Energy Outlook (WEO)-2012 special report in early October.

• IEA to prepare in-depth energy outlook of Iraq 15 February 2012

  The International Energy Agency (IEA) will undertake a comprehensive analytical study of Iraq as part of the 2012 edition of its flagship publication, the World Energy Outlook (WEO).

• Iraq’s oil production capacity is forecast to increase sharply over next five years 20 December 2011

  OPEC crude production capacity set to reach 38.1 million barrels per day by 2016.