Kurdistan Oil Producers Say No Deal Made on Resuming Exports - Bloomberg
Kurdistan Oil Producers Say No Deal Made on Resuming Exports - Bloomberg
Kurdistan Oil Producers Say No Deal Made on Resuming Exports
A drilling platform at an oil well digging site near the village of Taq Taq, in the semi-autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan. Photographer: Ali Al-Saadi/AFP/Getty Images
International oil companies in Iraq’s semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan denied reports that a deal was made to resume oil exports through the Iraqi-Turkey pipeline.
“We have not even seen any proposals” from Iraq or the Kurdistan Regional Government, the Association of the Petroleum Industry of Kurdistan, which represents the oil producers and is known as APIKUR, said Saturday in a statement.
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