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Kurds Defy Baghdad To Initiate Independent Oil Exports

 

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has begun exporting oil to Turkey under a barter arrangement between private firms, KRG and Turkish sources tell MEES. The trade is small-scale, amounting to just four trucks of condensate a day, and is certainly less than the existing brisk cross-border oil products trade with Iran, but coming amid rising tensions between Baghdad and both the KRG and Ankara, the move is...