11.   Permitting Iraq to open its taps could flood an already saturated market, sending oil prices down and costing oil exporting states billions of dollars.

12.   Al-Nibari is a crusader against corruption that has cost the small oil-rich state billions of dollars in public money.

13.   But permitting Iraq to open its taps could flood an already saturated market, sending oil prices down and costing oil exporting states billions of dollars.

14.   The government says that the mining sector has cost the state billions of dollars in recent years.

15.   California authorities now seek to void long-term energy contracts signed during the height of the crisis that could cost the state billions of dollars more than current prices.