Showdown: Baghdad vs. Irbil … Iraqi Kurds’ Oil Prerogatives … and more ….
*The Kurdish oil minister speaks his mind. *Shahristani: Kurds used military to prevent oil development by Baghdad *Kurds self sufficient and producing 1 million barrels in five years Iraqi Kurdistan's oil minister, Ashti Hawrami, begins his U.S. tour of political and business leaders from Washington to Texas a hot item with international oil companies, but […]He has signed around 20 oil deals with international oil companies, most after the national oil minister labeled them illegal.
Hawrami blames Baghdad for playing politics with a national oil law, prompting the Kurdistan Regional Government to move ahead with its own regional oil law in August.
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