Iraq will later this month host influential bodies that assess oil production levels, ahead of an OPEC meeting when the topic will become even hotter as members jostle over allocations. DUBAI, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Iraq will later this month host influential bodies that assess oil production levels, ahead of an OPEC meeting when the topic will become even hotter as members jostle over allocations. OPEC’s second largest producer has invited international organisations and media groups who estimate its production to visit the oil ministry in Baghdad and possibly the southern oil city of Basra. The meetings, scheduled for Oct. 24-25, are “for the purpose of sharing, in details, the most accurate figures of Iraqi oil production,” state-owned Oil Marketing Company SOMO said in the invitation letter received by Reuters. “During the said meetings, you will also have the chance to register the agency you are representing for a […]