Oil sector to benefit from post-war Iraqi carve-up

Gazeta Wyborcza has learned that this week Americans were conducting talks i n Warsaw over the participation of the Gdańsk Refinery (RG) in reconstructin g Iraq after the war. In exchange for the government's help during the war, Poland would receive the right to lease part of the Iraqi oil fields, which give access to good and cheap oil. Polish oil companies are already creating a consortium interested in taking part in the investments. It is headed by o ne of the most renowned American companies designing petrochemical systems, Kellog Brown & Loot. "I would not go into details, but access to our own oil fields would be a historic success," RG president Paweł Olechnowicz said. Th ey would receive access to oil fields in the South of Iraq and in turn also cooperate with British-Dutch Shell and British BP. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 18) M.M.