Q&A: PUK Co-President Lahur Talabany
The co-leader of Kurdistan's second-largest party discusses politicized oil policies, factionalized leadership, security risks, and Iraq's national budget.
PUK Co-President Lahur Talabany at the PUK Guesthouse in Sulaimaniya city in March 2021. (LIZZIE PORTER/Iraq Oil Report)
SULAIMANIYA - Gas field development "is the future" of the energy sector for the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), according to Lahur Talabany, co-president of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) political party.
There is also significant room for cooperation with Baghdad on a range of energy and security issues, he said, including the creation of a Kurdistan National Oil Company within the future framework of a prospective Iraqi National Oil Company. That new paradigm could help the region respond to the financial and political upheaval of recent years.
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