These worries have hardly pre-occupied Pradeep Kabra and his team while developing the high-profile Taq Taq concession in Iraqi Kurdistan.
"We have not had a single security incident since the inception of the project," says Kabra, the general manager for the Taq Taq project.
The onus is on exploration and development drilling that will ultimately help the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) emerge as a respectable oil exporter.
However,