The foreign army moves out; foreign oil men move in. Iraqis may fear their energy is being sold off on the cheap, but they need not worry. Terms for operating rights offered at auction yesterday for eight oil and gas fields were so harsh that two failed to find bidders. The auction of the giant Rumaila field almost collapsed – until BP stepped in and accepted a flat $2 fee for each barrel of oil produced beyond about 1.2m a day, half what it asked for.
外國軍隊撤出；外國石油人士入場。伊拉克人可能擔心，他們的能源資源會遭到賤賣，但他們無需憂慮。昨日拍賣期間，8個油氣田的經營權條款是如此苛刻，以至於其中2個油氣田竟然找不到投標者。魯邁拉(Rumaila)巨型油田的拍賣幾乎流標，最後英國石油(BP)介入，同意超出每日120萬桶石油的開採量只收取每桶2美元的較低報酬，爲先前所要求報酬的一半。
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