{"id":420098,"date":"2021-06-14T08:56:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T03:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=420098"},"modified":"2021-06-14T09:45:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T04:15:06","slug":"iraq-oil-minister-ihsan-abdul-jabbar-ismail-says-gas-sector-a-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iraq-oil-minister-ihsan-abdul-jabbar-ismail-says-gas-sector-a-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq oil minister Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail says gas sector a priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq&#8217;s oil sector is rebounding after a catastrophic year triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, with key investment projects on the horizon, Iraq&#8217;s oil minister said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>But he also warned that an enduring bureaucratic culture of fear threatens to stand in the way. <\/p>\n<p>Iraq is currently trading oil at $68 per barrel, close to the approximately USD 76 needed for the state to operate without reliance on the central bank to meet government expenditures.<\/p>\n<p>Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail took over the unenviable job of supervising Iraq&#8217;s most vital industry at the height of an oil price crash that slashed oil revenues by more than half last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq&#8217;s oil sector is rebounding after a catastrophic year triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, with key investment projects on the horizon, Iraq&#8217;s oil minister said Friday. But he also warned that an enduring bureaucratic culture of fear threatens to stand in the way. Iraq is currently trading oil at $68 per barrel, close to the approximately USD 76 needed for the state to operate without reliance on the central bank to meet government expenditures. Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail took over the unenviable job of supervising Iraq&#8217;s most vital industry at the height of an oil price crash that slashed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}