Disputed oil drilling could provoke war
Top political and military officials in Baghdad are warning that the Iraqi Army will risk civil war to stop ExxonMobil and any other company from drilling in disputed territories.
KRG President Massoud Barzani inspecting the front lines of the Peshmerga in Kirkuk on Dec. 10, 2012. (KAMARAN AL-NAJAR/Iraq Oil Report)
BAGHDAD - Leaders in Baghdad are warning that American oil companies could be responsible for causing a civil war with the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region if they begin drilling in Iraq's disputed territories.
Both the central government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have deployed thousands of troops near the contested border between north and south, including land where the American companies ExxonMobil and Hunt Oil have agreed to drill for oil. In some areas, the opposing forces are less than a mile apart, well within the range of each other's weapons.
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