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There’s an interesting piece in the FT today about how oil output is steadily decining in Iraq due to over explotation of existing wells and the difficulties in attracting the technical staff necessary for serious development of new capacity:

Iraq’s oil industry has gone backwards since the fall of Mr Hussein in the spring of 2003. [...]

This is news. Bloomberg covers the story. China apparently may need 1,790 planes new planes by 2023 Airbus estimate, and it makes sense to, well, make them in China.
Toulouse-based Airbus, which is trailing Boeing in new orders this year, may win an order for as many as 150 planes valued at $9 billion, said people [...]