"Simon Elliott" wrote in message
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Tarver Engineering writes
Total managed the Iraqi's oil before the US got there and the aquifer
shows
the French abused the fields.

Interesting. Can you elaborate on this?

The story was in the newsgroups a couple of weeks ago.

A quick google search doesn't find anything. Can you give me some
pointers?

I don't see the articles on google, but it was a "blame Bush" set of threads
on alt.politics.usa.republican.

BTW, not all the oilfield services companies in Iraq were French. I
worked for an exploration company which was wholly owned by Raytheon,
which had some major contracts in Iraq in the 1980s.

20 years is a long time ago.

Total has been the main supplier since Desert Storm.