For the second time in three days, Kurdistan's lynchpin gas field came under attack, during a time of rising political tension in Baghdad.
Defending its oil sector independence, the KRG has so far succeeded at entangling Baghdad's legal offensive in procedural delays.
Baghdad's Commercial Court again postponed the Oil Ministry's lawsuit against seven oil companies operating in Kurdistan.
The latest strike on the KRG's energy sector narrowly missed gas facilities that provide most of Kurdistan's electricity feedstock.
Allawi discusses ending Kurdistan budget transfers, new expenditures under a stop-gap spending law, power payments to Iran, and implementing a Chinese financing deal.
