IRAQ
 
Politics Threatens To Bust Kurdish Oil Investment Boom
 
By Rafiq Latta in Irbil
 
Political tensions surrounding oil development between the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) and Turkey on one hand and central government in Baghdad on the other, are ratcheting up to new levels, imperiling the exploration bonanza that has seen around 50 companies flood to invest in the exploration sector of Iraq’s Kurdish north.
 
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