Iraq calls on U.S. companies to stay invested in nation’s oil sector. Iraqi Oil Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi met U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Stuart Jones in Baghdad to discuss progress in the Iraqi oil sector . The oil minister’s office said Sunday he stressed that U.S. energy companies need to stay invested in Iraq, especially in the oil sector. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said member state Iraq produced 3.16 million barrels of oil per day in September, up 4.4 percent from the previous month. Much of Iraq’s oil sector has been spared from violence from the insurgency waged by the Sunni-led group calling itself the Islamic State. Most of the export terminals in Iraq are in the south of the country, far away from the territory controlled by the terrorist group. U.S. officials, meanwhile, have stayed in Baghdad’s corner in a spat with the semiautonomous […]