Imminent ministerial-level visits to Baghdad and Ankara are likely to address major challenges to restarting Iraq’s northern exports.

Construction is underway on a new pipeline to bring gas supplies from the Khor Mor field up to Dohuk.

The KRG has received 598 billion dinars under the new budget law — a fraction of its theoretical monthly entitlement.

Key details remain unresolved, including the lynchpin issue of whether oil companies will get paid enough to enable KRG fields to restart.

Sign of cooperation bolsters KRG argument for starting federal budget transfers.

Political scrutiny of a contract is delaying a subsea pipeline project with the potential to lift export capacity by 500,000 bpd in a year.

Ankara sent a technical delegation to Baghdad but the two sides seem far from the top-level political agreement needed to restart oil flows.