Egypt receives paperwork for oil import agreement with Iraq, Ambassador in Cairo says

Inching toward an oil agreement with Iraq: Egypt is on the verge of signing an agreement with Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) to import a 1 mn barrels of crude oil each month, Iraq’s Ambassador to Cairo Habib Hady Al Sadr tells Al Ahram. Iraq has already signed the contracts and sent them to Egypt, he adds, and the first shipment should arrive in the last 10 days of March.