Q&A: Thamir Ghadhban, Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister for Energy and Minister of Oil
As Iraq pursues energy independence, the country's oil chief is streamlining the bureaucracy, crafting new investment incentives, and preparing to award mega-projects.
Thamir Ghadhban, then-Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs and Oil Minister (center), tours the Karbala refinery that is currently under construction, on May 2, 2019. (Source: Iraqi Oil Ministry media office)
LONDON - Eight months after taking the helm of Iraq's Oil Ministry and becoming deputy prime minister for energy, Thamir Ghadhban is streamlining the bureaucracy and implementing plans to feed new energy demand at home and abroad.
In an exclusive interview with Iraq Oil Report, Ghadhban discussed several of the ministry's strategic priorities -- including the imminent Heads of Agreement with ExxonMobil for a multi-billion dollar upstream development and infrastructure project, an initiative to revamp incentives for refinery investors, and key projects that will support the growth of Iraq's gas sector.
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