Oil exports from Iraq’s Kurdistan region to restart, minister says

Iraq’s Kurdistan region’s oil exports are due to recommence next week, bring almost two years of a dispute about Kurdish crude shipments to a halt, The National reported on February 17th.

A delegation of the Iraqi Oil ministry will visit Erbil on February 18th to talk about the transfer of 300,000 barrels to Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, which will be exported through Ceyhan port in Turkey, Ghani told reporters during a Baghdad economy event.

The decision weakens the improvement of Baghdad’s problematic relations with the capital of the Kurdish region, Erbil, which has around 45 billion barrels of oil reserves.

The National