Ecuador's state oil company creates arm to manage former fields seized from Occidental.

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The Kurdish leadership agreed to a U.S.-sponsored compromise in 2005 in which the central government would have the authority to manage existing oil fields, but new fields would fall under the exclusive jurisdiction of the regions.

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Sceptics insist this is not ahead of schedule, but acknowledge that the new oil will more than offset declines elsewhere, especially if the Saudis manage to delay the retirement of old fields.

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Father-of-three, Nagina Manjhi, tells me that things are now even worse than before: "We used to work in the fields or do other manual labour and somehow manage to make a living, " he explains.

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