The Iraq Oil Ministry’s production accord with the Kurdistan Regional Government hasn’t resolved their U.S. court fight over a tanker of crude that has lingered off the Texas coast since July, a person familiar with the matter said. The tanker loaded with a million barrels of Kurdish crude went to sea before the deal was signed on Dec. 2. After a closed-door meeting yesterday with U.S. District Judge Gray Miller in Houston, Hal Watson, the KRG’s lead lawyer, declined to comment on whether the Kurds will keep trying to bring the stranded cargo into the U.S. Jim Loftis, Iraq’s lead lawyer, said he discussed the accord with the judge and KRG’s attorney. The Iraqi central government has been trying to seize the $100 million cargo of the United Kalavryta for more than four months to prevent the KRG from cracking U.S. oil markets. Energy companies have been reluctant to […]