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Kurdistan Explorers Drill On
 
Despite the political risks, foreign oil investors in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) are ratcheting up already high levels of activity, spurred by recent discoveries, declarations of commerciality (MEES 14 September) and talk of a political breakthrough in the oil conflict between the Kurds and Baghdad (see page 20). Results have been largely, although by no-means 100%, positive. On 11 September, Norway’s DNO announced that it had...