Iraq’s oil rivals building ‘thin confidence’
As Baghdad approves a $541 million payment to Kurdistan, leaders hope their budding good will can lead to a long-term resolution of oil disputes.
Thamer Ghadhban (center), the former oil minister and current senior advisor to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, tours the Doura refinery in Baghdad.
DUBAI - The oil conflict between Baghdad and Kurdistan has come to a crossroads: either technical collaboration will lead to a durable framework for long-term prosperity, or political jockeying will destroy fragile good will.
That was the message delivered by Thamer Ghadhban, the chief adviser to Iraq's prime minister, as the country's central and regional governments begin talks on a new oil law and start to implement measures that could lead to increasing oil exports from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
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