. >> the task of remaking iraq's oil sector falls to retired shell oil ceo phil carroll.pointed by the bush administration to be the senior adviser to iraq's oil ministry. >> advertise role was, as was the case with all of these advisers, to essentially get alongside the iraqis at the ministry of oil, make an assessment of the physical plant, the oil fields, the production facilities and of the people. >> when carroll arrives in baghdad, he comes up against radical u.s. plans being discussed to commandeer and transform iraq's entire oil industry. >> he was surrounded by politicized young republican volunteers who had no experience in the oil industry, who were planning stock market privatization schemes, running around talking about building pipelines from baghdad to israel. things that were really highly unrealistic and provocative. phil carroll very much acted as the brakes against the privatization crowd. >> in this 2005 bbc report re-aired on the program "democracy now" phil carroll describes what he encountered when he arrived in iraq. >> bottles everywhere from tota