InvestmentsTop Global NewsMarketsReal Estate Exclusive: Exxon’s US$53 billion Iraq deal hit by contract snags, Iran tensions – sources By financialnews_rlv83x - June 21, 2019 0 137 Just weeks ago, U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil looked poised to move ahead with a US$53 billion project to boost Iraq’s oil output at its southern fields, a milestone in the company’s ambitions to expand in the country.