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The world's oil majors will compete in an extraordinary scramble for the right to develop the country's oilfields.
It has been three decades since the big drills of the oil giants bored into the sands of Iraq. But, on Monday, an extraordinary televised auction will see the multi-national majors from BP and Shell to China's Sinopec conduct an unseemly scramble for the right to develop the country's fields of black gold.
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