. >> the task of remaking iraq's oil sector falls to retired shell oil ceo, phil carroll.ush administration to be the senior adviser to iraq's oil ministry. >> his role was, as was the case with all of these advisers, to eventually get alongside the iraqis at the ministry of oil, make an assessment of the physical plant, the oil fields, the production facilities and the people. >> when carroll comes to baghdad, he comes up against radical u.s. plans being discussed to commandeer and france former rack'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, reaired on the program "democracy now," phil carroll describes what he encountered when he arrived in iraq. >> models everywhere from the total privatization to pa