New oil minister tapped in second try at Cabinet overhaul
Former South Oil Company chief Jabbar Allibi nominated to head the Oil Ministry, as Abadi makes a second attempt to reform his Cabinet.
Jabbar Allibi, second from left, with other Iraqi oil officials in a Dec. 11, 2003, meeting in Kuwait City, negotiating fuel supply during a shortage at the time. (YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP/Getty Images)
Jabbar Allibi, a former director general of Iraq's South Oil Company (SOC), has been proposed as Iraq's next oil minister, as part of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's second attempt to reshuffle the Cabinet.
A list of several ministerial replacements was released Tuesday, a day after nearly all of the country's party leaders agreed to a government reform plan.
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