Tue Apr 1, 2008 4:37pm EDT
WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research) is ready to help Iraq boost oil production once that country’s government finalizes a petroleum law covering big energy projects, the head of the oil giant said on Tuesday.
“We are very much prepared to go back to Iraq,” Shell chief executive officer Jeroen van der Veer said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington.
But first, he said, Shell employees must be able to work safely in the country and a petroleum law must be passed.