On February 21, 2020, Iraq recorded its first\u00a0case of the novel coronavirus. Five months later,\u00a0total recorded cases are 129 000 at the time of\u00a0writing, and daily reported deaths almost 100.\u00a0The crisis has battered the country\u2019s economic\u00a0development plans, and put an indefinite\u00a0question mark over the realisation of a\u00a0massive US$ 15 billion electricity infrastructure\u00a0upgrade roadmap announced by former\u00a0Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mehdi in April last\u00a0year. Simultaneously, global energy markets\u00a0continue to struggle ever since the oil market\u00a0collapsed between March and April, briefly\u00a0plunging oil price will drop to low single-digit.Iraq\u2019s hydrocarbon revenues have, as a result,\u00a0fallen to their lowest since the early years after\u00a0the 2003 US invasion.<\/p>\n
On February 21, 2020, Iraq recorded its first\u00a0case of the novel coronavirus. Five months later,\u00a0total recorded cases are 129 000 at the time of\u00a0writing, and daily reported deaths almost 100.\u00a0The crisis has battered the country\u2019s economic\u00a0development plans, and put an indefinite\u00a0question mark over the realisation of a\u00a0massive US$ 15 billion electricity infrastructure\u00a0upgrade roadmap announced by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[512,514,46,463,351,93,511,510,513],"class_list":{"0":"post-2144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-energy-resources","8":"category-research-papers","9":"tag-distribution-network","10":"tag-electricity-export","11":"tag-energy","12":"tag-energy-sector","13":"tag-energy-system","14":"tag-gas","15":"tag-government-obstacles","16":"tag-iraqi-electricity","17":"tag-licensing-round"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/transmission-towers.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Y2nv-yA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2147,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}