U.S. Marshals ordered to seize KRG crude
Iraq’s Oil Ministry stops oil from Kurdistan from being sold to American buyers.
The view from the deck of the United Kalavryta, in this undated photo on the website of owner Marine Management Services M.C.
A Texas court has ordered the U.S. Marshals Service to seize a cargo of crude exported by Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) as it prepared to be offloaded from a tanker moored in the U.S. Gulf Coast.
The Iraqi government, acting through U.S. attorneys Vinson & Elkins, won the order late Monday as part of a claim that the KRG attempted to usurp its ownership of 1.032 million barrels of crude oil aboard the United Kalavryta tanker by trying to sell it without the Ministry of Oil's consent.
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