Egypt, Iraq oil ministers probe cooperation

CAIRO, 24 Dec 2018: Petroleum Minister Tarek el Molla probed on Monday with his Iraqi counterpart ways of boosting cooperation in the oil and gas industry.

They met in Kuwait City on the sidelines of the ongoing OAPEC ministerial meeting, a statement by the Ministry of Petroleum said.

The two ministers also discussed prospects of expanding the activities of Egyptian companies in Iraq and developments in the global oil market.

Molla affirmed the importance of constant Egyptian-Iraqi cooperation in the various oil industries to benefit from the expertise of the two nations in this field, the statement added.