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Crude oil exports from Iraq’s semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan have reached 205,000 barrels per day (bpd), but the oil flows via a pipeline to the Turkish point of Ceyhan could be under threat again. Oil exports from Iraq’s northern region of Kurdistan via the Iraq-Türkiye Pipeline to Ceyhan resumed on …

The export availability of crude oil from Iraq’s semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan continues to increase after the pipeline from northern Iraq to the Turkish Mediterranean coast resumed flows on Saturday, one of the foreign companies operating in Kurdistan said on Monday. UK-listed Gulf Keystone Petroleum confirmed that crude oil exports …

Exports from the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan will resume on Saturday, September 27, following agreements reached between Iraq’s federal government, the Kurdistan Regional Government, and a group of international oil companies, Norway-based oil producer DNO ASA said on Friday. However, DNO, one of the major foreign producers in Kurdistan, will …

Turkey and the federal Iraqi government have agreed to resume oil exports from Iraq’s semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan via a pipeline to the Turkish coast, Shakhwan Abdullah, Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, said this weekend. Oil exports from Kurdistan have been halted for two and a half years, after …

Kurdistan has lost some $28 billion from a dispute between the government of the semi-autonomous region, the central Iraqi government, and Turkey that has been running for over two years now. “From March 25, 2023, until now, Iraq and the Kurdistan Region have suffered losses of more than 28bn dollars …

The long-running oil export dispute between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil over oil exports and public-sector salaries has now deepened, as Iraq’s Cabinet failed to address the issue in its latest session, just a day after media outlets reported that a resolution was near. According to …

Iraq has filed a lawsuit against the United States over oil contracts between American companies and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, escalating a constitutional dispute that has long threatened to destabilize the country’s energy sector, Reuters reported. According to Iraqi media, the lawsuit was filed on Monday …

While the federal government of Iraq welcomes cooperation with U.S. energy firms, Baghdad noted on Friday that direct deals with the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region violate the Iraqi constitution and need to go through the federal authorities with federal approval. Earlier this week, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq …

Despite assurances from the federal Iraqi government that the resumption of oil exports from Kurdistan is imminent, the foreign oil firms operating in the semi-autonomous Iraqi region said on Friday they would not be resuming oil exports today. Last week, Iraq’s Oil Minister Hayyan Abdul Ghani said that Iraq and …

The central Iraqi government has decided to start delivering crude oil from Kurdistan to the state-owned oil company or the oil ministry, local media reported, noting that the price that Baghdad is going to pay to the regional government of Kurdistan is yet to be determined. For starters, however, Baghdad …