Northern exports stalled by Baghdad-Erbil disputes

Iraq's only secondary pipeline export route remains almost entirely offline two weeks after the war in Iran began choking off oil flows from the Basra Gulf, depriving the country of its main revenue source and setting off a widening crisis for the energy sector.

Oil fields in Kirkuk are ready to send at least 150,000 barrels per day (bpd) through the northern pipeline system to Turkey, according to officials at the state-run North Oil Company (NOC), but there is a political delay centered on disagreements between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).