WASIT PROVINCE, Iraq — When China’s biggest oil company signed the first post-invasion oil field development contract in Iraq last year, the deal was seen as a test of Iraq’s willingness to open an industry that had previously prohibited foreign investment.
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A Chinese guard at the Ahdab oil field southeast of Baghdad.
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Wasit Province is among the poorest provinces in Iraq.
