Iraq sits on an estimated 115 billion barrels of oil theworld's third largest reserves

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Almost 1,100 channels broadcastvia its HOT BIRD(TM) video neighbourhood at 13 degrees East which serves over120 million cable and satellite homes in Europe, the Middle East and NorthAfrica. The Group's satellites also serve a wide range of fixed and mobiletelecommunications services, TV contribution markets, corporate networks, andbroadband markets for Internet Service Providers and for transport, maritimeand in-flight markets. Headquartered in Paris, Eutelsat and itssubsidiaries employ 538 commercial, technical and operational experts from 27countries. http:// further informationPressVanessa O'Connor, Tel: rederique Gautier, Tel: nvestorsGilles Janvier, Tel: SOURCEEutelsat CommunicationsFor further information, Press, Vanessa O'Connor, Tel: 33-1-53-98-38-88,; Frederique Gautier, Tel: 33-1-53-98-38-88,; Investors, Gilles Janvier, Tel: 33-1-53-98-35-30,. By Mohammed Abbas and Ahmed Rasheed Stocks? ? ? ? Russia BASRA, Iraq, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Next to a pipeline snakingacross a desert in Iraq's south, villas built to house anexpected influx of foreign oil workers stand empty. Nearby, a faded plaque in Russian and Arabic commemoratesthe opening of a pumping station in 1972, a reminder of theforeign ties that helped Iraq develop its oil industry As U.S. The country has launched a bidding round for some of itslargest oil and gas fields, which it hopes will attractmultibillion dollar investments. But a lack of security, rigid bureaucracy and the absence ofa legal framework is still deterring the investment Iraq needsto update its decaying oil infrastructure.

"A foreign oil workers' compound, whether Exxon, BP, Shellor whoever, would be a bull's-eye for an attack," said a seniorforeign oil executive who declined to be named because he is notauthorised to speak to the media. Iraq sits on an estimated 115 billion barrels of oil, theworld's third largest reserves. But tin shacks still line theroad to its oil fields, and the government is desperate to useoil income to rebuild the country. Deprived of foreign expertise and money, Iraqi engineershave grown adept at tinkering with old equipment and salvagingspare parts, but their maintenance is only skin deep.