Bai Hassan field recovering slowly from IS attacks

KIRKUK - Engineers have resumed production at a station of the Bai Hassan oil field that had been taken offline in an attack by militants from the so-called Islamic State (IS) group at the end of July.

The re-start provides badly needed production for the cash-strapped Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), which depends overwhelmingly on oil exports to support its budget and service billions of dollars in debt.