Iraq Says It’s Ready to Restart Oil Via Turkish Pipeline
aghdad asked Kurdish officials to start delivering the crude to state marketeer SOMO to resume exports.
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Iraq’s oil ministry repeated that it’s ready to restart exports from the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan via a pipeline to Turkey that’s been shut for almost two years.
But a long-running dispute between Kurdistan and the central government is unresolved. Also, both Iraq and Turkey have said for longer than a year that they’re prepared to get oil flowing again, but the pipeline still hasn’t reopened.