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U.S. quietly expands energy presence in Iraq through new project
OilPrice says the United States is quietly building a new energy foothold in Iraq via an announced project that the outlet characterizes as seemingly obscure. The article traces how major but sometimes overlooked U.S.-driven developments have historically reshaped global oil markets and geopolitics, pointing to a February 14, 1945 agreement between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Saudi King Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud. OilPrice also cites later U.S. efforts tied to the 1973 Oil Crisis, including meetings between U.S. President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger aimed at neutralizing the increased influence of Arab states, and it links a separate 2011 episode to the future political ambitions of Donald Trump. According to OilPrice, the latest Iraq announcement last week may belong to the same pattern, setting up how a new energy project could influence the broader “oil market order,” while the outlet does not provide additional project specifics in the provided text.