Iraq can support freeze ‘for a certain period’: SOMO official Country sees its oil production growing; won’t flood market Iraq has given fellow OPEC members the level of crude production at which it would be prepared to freeze output, according to the top official at the state oil marketing company. The second-biggest producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries could support a freeze “for a certain period,” Falah Al-Amri, the director general of Iraq’s Oil Marketing Co., known as SOMO, said in interview in Singapore on Thursday. He didn’t give any further details about the level at which the country is prepared to hold its production. Speculation that the world’s biggest oil suppliers will agree to coordinated action aimed at controlling output when they meet in Algiers this month has whipsawed global prices. Saudi Arabia and Russia, the world’s biggest producers, this week pledged to cooperate to stabilize […]