Oil companies working in northern Iraq have been called on to assist with a reconstruction campaign that began after liberation from ISIS, the oil minister said. Iraqi Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi said he ordered oil companies to pave roads and restore parts of the infrastructure in Ninevah province. The state-run oil company, meanwhile, is tasked with harnessing a national reconstruction effort in the north. “He confirmed also that the ministry was able to rehabilitate and restart many oil facilities, gas factories, reservoirs and gas filling stations in the province,” the ministry stated Thursday. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in late August that Nineveh province and its capital, Mosul, were liberated from the Islamic […]