Iraq’s prime minister-designate Mohammed Allawi said he will name members of his cabinet this week, including the oil minister, pending approval of parliament on his choices of ministers for OPEC’s second-largest crude producer. The cabinet members are “independent” candidates who will be picked without any political interference, Allawi said Saturday in a tweet. Thamer Ghadhban, Iraq’s current oil minister and deputy prime minister for energy affairs, has held the post since November 2018. It is not known if he will stay in the new cabinet, which will replace that of outgoing Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, who resigned last year in the face of protests demanding political and economic change. The protests, which started in October last year, have occasionally disrupted oil supply from some fields and refineries without impacting overall production and exports. Ghadhban has been […]