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Iraqi Oil Ministry Blames Foreign Companies for Kurdistan Delays

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Foreign companies operating in Iraqi Kurdistan are partly to blame for the delay in the resumption of crude exports from the region according to Iraq’s oil ministry Monday.

  • The foreign companies operating in the area have so far not submitted contracts to the federal oil ministry to have them revised in accordance with the constitution and the law.
  • The Iraq-Turkey pipeline, which delivers flows from the region, remains shut since March last year after legal and financial hurdles prove difficult to overcome – further pressuring flows from the region.
  • According to Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) finance minister Awat Shekh Janab over the weekend, IOCs in Kurdistan have been producing at over 125,000 b/d since April 2023, with Erbil handing over ~75,000 b/d to Baghdad between 25 June-1 December 2023.

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