Baghdad court rejects Oil Ministry effort to invalidate KRG oil contracts
The Karkh Court of Appeals has denied an Oil Ministry appeal and reversed a series of 2022 rulings that declared several KRG oil contracts void.
Workers measure the pressure at the Central Processing Facility at the Tawke oil field in Iraqi Kurdistan in August 2012. (SEBASTIAN MEYER/Metrography/Iraq Oil Report)
Oil companies operating in Kurdistan scored a significant legal victory in Baghdad as a court rejected an Oil Ministry appeal and reversed prior rulings that had invalidated several upstream oil contracts with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
Iraq Oil Report obtained copies of rulings by the Karkh Court of Appeals in Baghdad, issued on Dec. 18, which appear to put an end to a legal campaign waged by the federal Oil Ministry against nine oil companies with upstream contracts in Kurdistan: Addax, Dana Gas, DNO, GazpromNeft, Genel Energy, Gulf Keystone, HKN Energy, ShaMaran, and Western Zagros.
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