Iraq Makes Progress on Forming Government, Developing Oil Wealth

摘要

Momentum is building on both the oil and political fronts in Iraq-a huge water-injection project vital to the country's oil expansion is advancing, while Baghdad finally appears to have a government in place. In terms of complexity, it seems to have been easier to hammer out the elements of the $10 billion water project than to form a government, with Iraqi politicians taking eight months to agree to give Shiite Nouri al-Maliki a second term as prime minister.