Corps, Contractor and Iraqis Prioritize Projects to Bring Back Oil Production.

Officials from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kellogg Brown & Root Inc. and the Iraqi Oil Ministry have taken out a consolidated list of projects necessary to restructure the Iraqi oil industry. The essential elements for hitting prewar production capacity are pipeline restoration, maintaining steady filtered-water supplies needed to reinject into Iraqi oil wells, electricity and security against the looting and sabotage that is being witnessed throughout the country, explains Steven Wright, the spokesman for the Corps' Kuwait-based Restore Iraqi Oil Task Force. Clifford G. Mumm, Bechtel National Inc.'s project director overseeing the $680-million U.S. Agency for International Development rebuilding contract in Iraq, agrees that looting and other security concerns have hindered work. United States