"There are few fields in the world which can produce that much," said Abdul Wahab, a geologist and a local expert on the region's history. "The Kirkuk field is one of the greatest, one of the giant fields of the world, not only of the Middle East."
When Baghdad's authority collapsed, Kurdish guerrilla fighters, called peshmerga, seized the processing plant and the fields before transferring power to American soldiers. The soldiers now patrols the area and guards some of the facilities. The engineers, scientists, cleaners, security guards and typists who ran Northern Oil's day-to-day operations remain, and many were expected to show up for work Saturday.
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