List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Dramatis Personae

1. American Oil Minister

2. Contingency Planning for the Oil Sector

3. ORHA Start-Up: Lieutenant General Jay Garner Is the First Civilian Leader

4. Iraqi Oil Sector: History, Resources, and Organization

5. Adjusting the Oil Plan

6. Penalizing Syria: Why So Important?

7. Finding Gold in Baghdad: Oil Ministry Leadership

8. The Calm before the Storm: June 2003

9. The Long Hot Summer of 2003

10. The Bizarre Top Priority

11. Task Force Shield: Securing the Oil Sector

12. Changing of the Guard: Oil Ministry and CPA Oil Changes

13. CPA Closes Out: June 2004

14. A Break between Tours: 2004 to 2006

15. Energy Fusion Cell: Fixing the Oil Sector

16. The Bayji Refinery and the Surge

17. The Southern Export Project

18. The Bid Rounds: Oil Field Auctions

19. Leaving Iraq: September 2011

20. What Haunts Me

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index