Kurdistan poised to restart pipeline exports

Northern oil exports to Turkey are poised to restart after Iraq's federal government reached a notional deal for selling oil produced by companies operating in Kurdistan.

The agreements have not yet been signed, according to government and industry officials, so there is still a possibility of last-minute complications. But the terms have been finalized in legally binding documents that are acceptable to all sides, the officials said, and exports seem closer to resuming now than at any other time in more than two years.