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Iraq orders Kurdish area to move oil output to state-run oil company instantly

Iraq's cabinet said on Tuesday it had bought the semiautonomous Kurdish area to instantly transfer its oil output to the nation's staterun company SOMO.

Iraq's cabinet likewise approved a budget plan measure to compensate the Kurdish government for production and transport costs, and set a $16 per barrel rate for foreign oil companies running in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Oil flows through the Kurdistan Regional Federal government's (KRG). pipeline were stopped by Turkey in March last year after the. International Chamber of Commerce bought Ankara to pay Baghdad. damages of $1.5 billion for unauthorised exports by the KRG. between 2014 and 2018.

An arbitration ruling found Turkey had broken arrangements. of a 1973 treaty by assisting in oil exports from the area. without the consent of the Iraqi federal government in Baghdad.

Negotiations to restart the pipeline have actually faltered as the. KRG, foreign oil companies and the federal government have actually made. clashing needs.

Iraq's ministry of oil, in coordination with the local. ministry of natural deposits, will appoint a worldwide. technical expert to calculate the fair approximated expenses of. production and transport for each field within 60 days of. the law's enactment, the statement stated.

If no agreement is reached within this period, the Iraqi. cabinet will select a global consultancy celebration without. returning to the Kurdish authorities, the declaration included.

Iraq had blamed foreign companies, along with the Iraqi. Kurdish authorities, for the delay in restarting crude exports. since they had up until now not submitted their agreements to the. federal oil ministry for modifications and likewise required higher. production cost that Iraqi government declined.

It was not clear in the cabinet statement if the Kurdish. local authorities and the foreign firms have accepted the. arrangement to the oil ministry of their agreements.

(source: Reuters)