Shahristani in Erbil: DNO, Taq Taq oil exports OK from north Iraq

Two companies developing oil fields in Iraq's Kurdistan region received approval from Baghdad to tie in to the northern Iraq pipeline, a company official said.

An official from the Taq Taq Operating Co., TTOPCO, a joint venture between Turkey's Genel Enerji and Canada's Addax Petroleum, said on condition of anonymity that both TTOPCO and Norway's DNO were given tie-in permission, Ben Lando reports for United Press International.