Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government must wait awhile longer for a U.S. judge to decide if he has authority to let federal agents seize $100 million worth of Kurdish crude waiting in a tanker off the Texas coast. Lawyers for the Iraqi Ministry of Oil convinced a magistrate judge last month to issue an arrest warrant for the 1 million-barrel cargo if the tanker enters U.S. territorial waters. That order would let U.S. marshals store the oil ashore at Iraqi expense until the dispute is resolved. U.S. District Judge Gray Miller, who now presides over the case, told lawyers at a hearing today in Houston federal court that he needs more time for his decision, which will turn in large part on where and when Iraq lost control of the oil. If control of the crude changed when it was loaded onto the tanker […]