BAGHDAD: As Iraq’s oil ministry considers supplying crude to a Kurdistan refinery and an Iranian route for trucked exports, a gulf opens up between the KRG’s political parties over the fate of newly-released Kirkuk oil.
Baghdad is considering a proposal to send Kirkuk crude to a private refinery in Sulaimaniya province and by truck through Iran, part of a plan to maximize the once-shut assets of Iraq’s North Oil Company (NOC).Negotiations over the NOC crude, which includes the restart last month of oil exports via pipeline to Turkey, has aggravated already tense internal Kurdish politics.
