DNO ASA (DNO) , the oil producer focused on northern Iraq , said a U.S. court ruling has opened a market for Kurdish crude and it could make its first independent export sales by the end of the year at international prices. A U.S. district judge in Houston yesterday ruled that the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government can take 1 million barrels of crude ashore in Texas even though Iraq’s central government claims ownership of it. That’s “good news” for DNO, which has been cleared by the KRG to export oil independently, Executive Chairman Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani said. “That opens up a market, and we’ll walk into that market as well,” he said today in Stavanger, on Norway ’s west coast. “It’s not just a legal matter or political matter, it’s also a matter of having refineries take this oil, run it through their refineries and see how it works.” DNO, […]