An informed source revealed, today, Friday, the departure of all foreign personnel working in the FCC project in the Basra Refinery via the land route to Jordan, coinciding with the escalation of security tensions in the region. The project represents the basic foundation for achieving Iraq's self-sufficiency in improved fuel. The cessation of work on it or the departure of its foreign cadres is considered a blow to the completion schedule for one of the most complex and important projects in the history of the modern Iraqi oil industry.