Akram Fouad Ahmed, a 25-year veteran of the North Oil Company (NOC), has been named by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi as the state-run company’s new director general.He takes over from Safa Abdulrahman Ahmed, the deputy director general of NOC who was temporarily put in charge following the removal of Sameer Salman al-Taie on July 27.Taie has been demoted to engineer and is under investigation for corruption, three senior NOC officials said. One of those officials said Taie is eff…