Oil from federally controlled oil fields could flow through Kurdistan’s new export pipeline to Turkey within six months. Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has agreed in principle to use its new pipeline to export crude oil produced by the federal North Oil Company (NOC) – an initiative which could strengthen economic ties between Erbil and Baghdad and change the political dynamics of Iraq’s long-running disputes over oil policy.Under the prospective plan, Kurdistan’s Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) and the NOC would work together to commission a new 36-inch pipeline to connect federal…