Highlights Parliament last week postponed voting on oil minister post PM Kadhimi wants to restore Iraq’s shrunken oil market share He also wants to amend IOC contracts Iraq’s new prime minister has appointed finance minister Ali Allawi as acting oil minister after parliament last week postponed a vote on the oil ministry post in OPEC’s second largest producer, an oil ministry spokesperson told S&P Global Platts on Monday. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Allawi, who had served in previous governments following the US invasion in 2003, was appointed finance minister last week as parliament granted its vote of confidence to Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, most members of his cabinet and his government program. Allawi, a former professor at Oxford University, was appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in 2003 as both minister of trade and minister of defense and remained in […]