The agreement to resume exporting Kirkuk crude through the KRG-operated pipeline came after the appointment of a new Iraqi oil minister and a visit by KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani to Baghdad to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, shown here in 2015. Photo by Mohammed Abbas/UPI Iraq’s federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government have tentatively resolved their dispute over the export and sales of Kirkuk oil produced by the federal government in northern Iraq via the KRG-owned export pipeline system through Turkey. Baghdad, however, left the door open to other export routes for its Kirkuk oil, including trucking it from Kirkuk to Iran, if necessary. The agreement to resume exporting Kirkuk crude through the KRG-operated pipeline following a five-month suspension came after the appointment of a new Iraqi oil minister and a visit by KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani to Baghdad to meet with Iraqi Prime […]