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Kurdistan resumes oil exports
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Iraqi Kurdistan resumes oil exports
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Ashti Hawrami, the minister of natural resources in
the Kurdistan region's government.
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August 7, 2012
ERBIL-Hewlêr, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',—
Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region resumed oil
exports on Tuesday, a top Kurdish official said,
after stopping them for more than four months during
a row with Baghdad.
Kurdistan halted its oil exports via the federal
government on April 1 over $1.5 billion it said is
owed to foreign oil companies working in the region,
that Baghdad has allegedly withheld.
"We started exporting oil at noon today," Ashti
Hawrami, the minister of natural resources in the
Kurdistan region's government, told AFP.
Hawrami said that the exports were currently less
than 100,000 barrels per day, but that they would
reach that figure within the next two days.
Kurdistan announced on August 1 that it would resume
exports, in a statement that quoted a natural
resources ministry spokesman as saying that "exports
would remain at 100,000 bpd for a month and if
payments were forthcoming, they could move swiftly
up to 200,000 bpd."
Hawrami said in the statement that the move was
aimed at building "confidence with the federal
government," and "squaring up all the oil and gas
issues in Iraq."
Baghdad and Erbil are at odds over issues including
Kurdistan's refusal to seek approval from the
central government for oil contracts it has awarded
to foreign firms,www.ekurd.net
and over a swathe of disputed territory in northern
Iraq.
Baghdad says all oil deals must go through the
national oil ministry and regards any that do not as
illegal.
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