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Iraqi violence, Nigerian chaos and some EU proposals

This section summarizes downstream developments of the previous month. Exploration & Production are covered in 'Upstream Review'. The year opened with no let‐up in the violence in Iraq. At the beginning of February, more than 130 were killed by a bomb in a Shi'i district of Baghdad, following a year in which some 35,000 civilians were killed, according to a UN estimate. US President George W Bush announced that extra troops are to be sent to Iraq in an attempt to bring the situation under control. Product shortages inside Iraq were made worse by attacks on downstream installations and the temp…