KRG oil chief optimistic on agreements

Ashti Hawrami, the minister of natural resources in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), says the oil companies developing fields that began exporting June 1 will be paid, despite prolonged negotiations with Baghdad.

The central government approved the exports but disputes remain over how to pay private companies in a nationalized oil sector based on contracts the capital does not recognize as legitimate.

Hawrami said it may take a few months because in the past three decades the n…

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