KRG
 
A Kurdish oil export pipeline will be operational by the end of the year, says KRG Oil Minister Ashti Hawrami. Yet two recent developments have changed the equation:  recent KRG elections, and a seeming rapprochement between Baghdad and Ankara which may yet foil the KRG’s plans to market its oil independently.
 
The new oil export pipeline from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) area is almost complete and is expected to be operational by the end of the...