Iraq may not be going rogue on the OPEC deal after all, and will apparently be putting up three new proposals for discussion at the cartel’s technical meeting in Vienna on Monday and Tuesday. “Our alternatives are based on other variables and will make it easier for OPEC members to make a decision,” Iraqi oil minister Jabbar al-Luaibi told The Wall Street Journal on Sunday. But no explanation of what those “other variables” are was given. “All of the options will be logical and in line with OPEC policy,” al-Luaibi noted, but declined to provide more details over Iraq’s proposals. Whatever the proposals Iraq does offer in Vienna, the fact remains that ever since OPEC agreed to agree on a production cap in late September, Iraq has disputed even the general framework of a possible agreement. The day after OPEC said it would work to work out […]