When the super-giant Majnoon oil field was threatened by flooding, it wasn’t just the state-run Basra Oil Company (BOC) that sprang into action – it was also Hadi al-Amiri, the head of a powerful political party and paramilitary group called the Badr Organization. “Mr. Amiri is leading a great effort in Basra and at Majnoon field,” said Ihsan Ismaael, the director general of BOC, in an interview with Iraq Oil Report . “There is joint cooperation with him, as our company […]