Iraq prepares to amend its existing oil contracts - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Omar Sattar

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A worker checks the valve of an oil pipe at Nahr Bin Umar oil field, north of Basra, Dec. 21, 2015. — REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani

A worker adjusts a pipe at the Nassiriya oilfield in Nassiriya, 300km (185 miles) southeast of Baghdad,September 8, 2012. Production from Iraq's southern oilfields is at 2.5 million barrels per day as the country edges closer to becoming the world's biggest source of new supplies over the next few years, a senior Iraqi oil official said. Picture taken September 8, 2012. REUTERS/Atef Hassan (IRAQ - Tags: ENERGY BUSINESS) - RTR37U0R

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Iraqi workers walk at the Halfaya oil field near the southern city of Amara on Dec. 12, 2009.

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DOHUK, IRAQ, MAY 31: Kurdish engineers and other employees work at the Tawke oil field near the town of Zacho on May 31, 2009 in Dohuk province about 250 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq. The Iraqi autonomous region of Kurdistan began crude oil exports on June 1, 2009 for the first time from two major oil fields, piping around 90,000 barrels per day (bpd). (Photo by Muhannad Fala'ah/Getty Images)

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