Iraq Wants Kurdish Kar Group to Halt Oil Operations in Kirkuk
- Oil Ministry was working with Kar to restart fields in north
- Most of Iraq’s crude is pumped from fields in the south
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Iraq’s parliament wants the Kurdish Kar Group to halt work at its oil operations in the disputed northern region of Kirkuk, which the central government reclaimed from the OPEC country’s semi-autonomous Kurdish authorities in October.
Parliament voted to ask the Oil Ministry to stop Kar from operating in Kirkuk fields, Ali Muarej, a member of the parliament’s oil and gas committee, said Monday by phone. In October, Iraq’s North Oil Co. was working with Kar to resume pumping at Bai Hassan and Avana oil fields in Kirkuk that had halted output on Oct. 16 due to fighting between the semi-autonomous Kurds in the north and the central government in Baghdad. Kar and North Oil weren’t immediately available for comment.