IRAQ EYES OIL PRODUCTION OF 3 MLN BPD BY END OF 2006 (Asia Pulse)

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It is expected that Iraq will produce three million barrels of oil per day by the end of the year and a massive 4.5 million by 2010, oil minister Hussein al-Shahristani said.

Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/11537)

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[waiting_game]

Interesting - yet in another acticle from today, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih said he also projects that a doubling by 2010 of Iraqi oil exports, now at 1.6 million barrels per day, and of output to 6 million bpd from 2.3 million bpd were 'conservative figures' in his view.

Ministers don't speak to each other? Or maybe just different points of view...