The book provides different perspectives that prevailed during the covered period on Iraqi petroleum issues: my own, other Iraqis, international views and statistics; it was structured according to these perspectives respectively in its four parts. Hence, the book is premised on "evidence-based research" that was thoroughly done, mostly during 2010 but also covers earlier years. For those years prior to 2011, as was the case since then, I compiled and documented my own Database, the oil annual reports and thematic, i.e., issue specific, folders.