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Iraq earlier warned Kurdish officials against shutting down Kirkuk oil flows.

The world’s fifth-biggest crude importer shipped in 1.83 million tonnes of crude oil from Iran in September.

Earlier this week Norway’s Statoil reported yet another dry well in the Barents Sea. some 100 km northwest of the Johan Castberg discovery.

The country started its seismic energy exploration in eastern Mediterranean on April 21 in line with the government’s ``National Energy and Mining Policy.``

The Kurds have repeatedly called for negotiations following the referendum in which an overwhelming majority voted for independence.

U.S. sanctions could cut off a lot of Iranian oil trade finance.

Iraqi forces captured Mosul from Islamic State in July. after a grueling nine-month U.S.-backed offensive with the participation of Kurdish Peshmerga.

With oil demand at about 1.2 million bpd and production at about 800.000 bpd. investors in Indonesia’s oil and gas sector will have a big supply gap to fill.

Merkel says she sees no need for the EU to get involved. and her government has sought assurances from Moscow that it will keep pumping gas through Ukraine after its gas transit contract expires in 2019.

The Kirkuk Ceyhan pipeline crosses territory taken by Islamic State militants in 2014 and recaptured by U.S.-backed Iraqi forces over the past two years.