EXCLUSIVE: Full text of the new Kurdistan export deal
As Iraqi leaders take tentative steps toward oil policy reconciliation, Iraq Oil Report publishes the agreement – signed Sept. 13, but secret until now – that sets the rules of the road ahead.
Larry Morrow, a construction supervisor for Norway's DNO Iraq, taking a call about work at the Tawke field as he overlooks the crude processing facility at DNO's Feyshkabour export center. On the far right is where Tawke field oil is piped in. To the left, pipelines running from a tanker offloading center where other KRG fields truck their crude to be exported. (BEN LANDO/Iraq Oil Report)
The fragile oil policy reconciliation between Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region is built on the premise that technical cooperation might lead to political progress.
The blueprint for this foundation of confidence-building has been an agreement that was signed on Sept. 13 by Oil Minister Abdul Karim Luaibi and Kurdistan Minister of Natural Resources Ashti Hawrami, as well as other key Baghdad leaders. Until now, despite its great importance to Iraq's oil debates, the text has remained secret.
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