UPDATE: Baghdad resumes exports into KRG pipeline
About 70,000 bpd is now flowing from NOC-controlled fields into the KRG export pipeline, after oil disputes caused a five-month shutoff.
A worker maintains equipment at the Shirawa oilfield outside Kirkuk. (KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images)
Updates include:
- Details of U.S.-Baghdad-Erbil talks that preceded the export restart
- Background about the KRG-federal Iraq oil dispute
ERBIL - Iraq's federal North Oil Company (NOC) is again pumping crude into the Kurdistan region's export system, after five months of shut-ins because of disputes over oil policy.
The export re-start signals a potential thaw in the relationship between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), two days after Iraq’s Parliament confirmed Jabbar Allibi* as oil minister, with Kurdish support.
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