Oil Smuggling Vital to Islamic State's Expansion - Businessweek: "... By early August the group controlled sections of Syria and Iraq that together are about the size of Wyoming. At that point, the territory included 7 oil fields and a refinery in northern Iraq, and 6 of the 10 oil fields in eastern Syria. According to Luay al-Khatteeb, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Doha Center in Qatar, its facilities in Iraq alone would under normal conditions produce about 80,000 barrels of oil a day—more than half the capacity of the Sultanate of Brunei. But for most of the summer, Islamic State has been able to produce only a little more than half the total capacity of the Iraqi territory it controls, al-Khatteeb says...."
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