Kurdistan Region's Oil Exports to Resume Next Week

The Kurds will use their ties with U.S. government to push the Iraqis and BP to involve them. Iraq and BP are expected to sign a multi-billion dollar deal covering four Kirkuk oil and gas fields ...
Despite Iraq’s vast reserves of (associated) natural gas, the country has long been dependent on Iranian gas supplies.
In November, the Iraqi army prohibited Kurdish farmers in Kirkuk’s Sargaran subdistrict from plowing their fields in preparation ... were located in prohibited oil zones. Two years later ...